Re: how to implement sum of bits using template metaprogramming

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:12:00 +0200
Message-ID:
<13fgv43mm9cnd82@corp.supernews.com>
* andrey.vul@gmail.com:

I'm tryin to convert this:
long sumOfBits(int n) {
    long x = 0;
    int i;
    for (i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--)
        x += (1 << i);
    return x;
}

into something like this:
template <int n> struct sumOfBits {
    static const unsigned char u8value = (unsigned char)((1 << n) +
sumOfBits<n - 1>::u8value);
    static const unsigned __int16 u16value = (unsigned __int16)((1 << n)
+ sumOfBits<n - 1>::u16value);
    static const unsigned __int32 u32value = (unsigned __int32)((1 << n)
+ sumOfBits<n - 1>::u32value);
    static const unsigned __int64 u64value = (unsigned __int64)((1 << n)
+ sumOfBits<n - 1>::u64value);
};
template <> struct sumOfBits <0> {
    static const unsigned char u8value = (unsigned char)1;
    static const unsigned __int16 u16value = (unsigned __int16)1;
    static const unsigned __int32 u32value = (unsigned __int32)1;
    static const unsigned __int64 u64value = (unsigned __int64)1;
};

and so far, all expansions, that have multiples of 8 (8, 16, 32, 64)
return 0 due to overflow.
Any way to correctly rewrite the template?


Off the cuff, to reproduce the behavior of the original non-tempalte
function:

template< int n >
struct SumOfBits
{
     enum{ value = (1L << (n-1)) | ((1L << (n-1)) - 1) };
};

Cheers, & hth.,

- Alf

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