Re: argument deduction for function template

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:23:04 CST
Message-ID:
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vectorizor wrote:

I have a slight problem with the usage of function templates. It shoud
be really easy for you guys to explain me what's wrong.

I have one base class and 2 derived classes:

/*code*/
template <typename T> struct Image {...};
template <typename T> struct GrayImage : public Image<T> {...};
template <typename T> struct ColorImage : public Image<T> {...};
/*code*/

I am now trying to write a funtion to process images. The definition
is:

/*code*/
template <typename T, typename U> void func1(ColourImage<U> &input,
GrayImage<T> &output) {...}
/*code*/

Now I am tring to call this function as follow

/*code*/
GrayImage<f32> gray, tmp;
ColourImage<u8> color;
// ....
func1(color, gray);


[ Allegedly, the compiler can't deduce T here. Alas, wrong code. ]

As it turns out, after getting to the bottom of it in comp.lang.c++,
there were two more arguments in that function, and one of them was
T, and a value of a different from 'f32' type was passed to it, so
the compiler was unable to deduce T. Of course!...

I am not sure why after the cause of the error had been shown, there
was a need to post it again, here. Maybe the server lag...

Those who have access to Google Groups, see
http://tinyurl.com/2uxqjt ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/2uxqjt )

/*code*/
[..]


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