Re: Template-Meta: Finding out whether a template-definition exists

From:
 Barry Ding <dhb2000@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:36:24 -0700
Message-ID:
<1188887784.283640.42720@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On 9 3 , 8 13 , "Hendrik Schober" <SpamT...@gmx.de> wrote:

Hi,

suppose we have

  template< typename T >
  struct X;

and some specializations:

  template<>
  struct X<A> {};

  template<>
  struct X<B> {};

  template<>
  struct X<B> {};

Given a type 'U', is there a way to find out whether the
definition 'X<U>' exists? (The result should be a compile-
time constant, so that it can be used for specializing
other templates.)


after revising the code I post else-thread, it seems to work as you
wish

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

template <class T>
struct X;

template <>
struct X<int>
{
};

template <>
struct X<float>
{
};

template <class U>
struct is_specialized
{
    struct true_type
    {
        char dummy[256];
    };

    struct false_type
    {
        char dummy[1];
    };

    template <class T>
    static true_type test(X<T>);

    static false_type test(...);

    template <class T>
    static X<T> make_xt();

    enum { value = (sizeof(test(make_xt<U>())) ==
sizeof(true_type)) };
};

int main()
{
    cout << is_specialized<int>::value << endl;
    cout << is_specialized<float>::value << endl;
    cout << is_specialized<bool>::value << endl;
}

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