Re: looping compiler

From:
Carl Barron <cbarron413@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:03:18 CST
Message-ID:
<140320080517093443%cbarron413@adelphia.net>
In article
<390c98b1-3e27-48ba-8394-67f55fae62f7@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
<moje_spamerskie_konto@yahoo.com> wrote:

I have a small piece of code and I can`t figure out why my compiler
loops while compiling it. Here is a source:

...
long long const my_max_int = 1000;

template <int radix, int k>
struct power {
 static const long long result = power<radix, k-1>::result * (long
long) radix;
};
template <int radix>
struct power<radix, 0> {
 static const long long result = 1;
};

template <int radix, int k>
struct param_max_repr_size {
 enum { result = ((power<radix, k>::result < my_max_int) ?
              (int) param_max_repr_size<radix, k+1>::result : k) };
};

int main() {
     int n;
    n = param_max_repr_size<100, 1>::result;
}

In this example I want to count the smallest 'k' such as 100^k >
my_max_int.
Any clue?

mati


First power is O(N) in classes created, power can be written in
70 lines that is O(log2(N) ) in classes created, in particular a 64 bit
long long creates about 128 classes not 2^64*k where k>=1.

something like the following is the 'power algorithm that is O(log2(N))
in class defintions from the expanding templates:

as the #if 1 ... #endif is a test that it works. No other headers
required.

<code>
template <long long N>
struct LongLong
{
    static const long long value = N;
};

template <bool B,class T,class F>
struct select
{
    typedef T type;
};

template <class T,class F>
struct select<false,T,F>
{
    typedef F type;
};

template <int N>
struct is_odd
{
    static const bool value = N & 1;
};

template <long long R,long long B,bool Test>
struct power_aux_1
{
    static const long long value = R*B;
};

template <long long R,long long B>
struct power_aux_1<R,B,false>
{
    static const long long value = R;
};

template <long long B,int N,long long R>
struct power_aux:select
<
    N==0,
    LongLong<R>,
    power_aux
    <
       B*B,
       N >> 1,
       power_aux_1
       <
          R,
          B,
          is_odd<N>::value
       >::value
    >

::type

{
};

template <long long B,int N>
struct power:power_aux<B,N,1LL>
{
};

#if 1

template <bool B> struct compiler_error{};
template <> struct compiler_error<true> {typedef int type;};

typedef select
<
    power<2,5>::value == 32,
    compiler_error<true>,
    compiler_error<false>

::type::type foo;


#endif
</code>

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