bslmf_ismemberpointer

Detailed Description

Outline

• Purpose
• Classes
• Description
  • Usage
    • Example 1: Verify Member Pointer Types

Purpose

Provide a compile-time check for non-static member pointer types.

Classes

• bsl::is_member_pointer: standard meta-function for member pointer types
• bsl::is_member_pointer_v: the result value of the standard meta-function

See also

bslmf_ismemberfunctionpointer, bslmf_ismemberobjectpointer

Description

This component defines a meta-function, bsl::is_member_pointer and a template variable bsl::is_member_pointer_v, that represents the result value of the bsl::is_member_pointer meta-function, that may be used to query whether a type is a pointer to non-static member type.

bsl::is_member_pointer meets the requirements of the is_member_pointer template defined in the C++11 standard [meta.unary.comp].

Note that the template variable is_member_pointer_v is defined in the C++17 standard as an inline variable. If the current compiler supports the inline variable C++17 compiler feature, bsl::is_member_pointer_v is defined as an inline constexpr bool variable. Otherwise, if the compiler supports the variable templates C++14 compiler feature, bsl::is_member_pointer_v is defined as a non-inline constexpr bool variable. See BSLS_COMPILERFEATURES_SUPPORT_INLINE_VARIABLES and BSLS_COMPILERFEATURES_SUPPORT_VARIABLE_TEMPLATES macros in bsls_compilerfeatures component for details.

Usage

In this section we show intended use of this component.

Example 1: Verify Member Pointer Types

Suppose that we want to assert whether a set of types are member pointer types.

First, we create a user-defined type MyStruct:

struct MyStruct
{
};

Now, we create three typedefs – a member object pointer type, a member function pointer type and a general function pointer type:

typedef int MyStruct::* DataMemPtr;
typedef int (MyStruct::*MyStructMethodPtr) ();
typedef int (*MyFunctionPtr) ();

Finally, we instantiate the bsl::is_member_pointer template for various types and assert the value static data member of each instantiation:

assert(false == bsl::is_member_pointer<int*>::value);
assert(false == bsl::is_member_pointer<MyFunctionPtr>::value);
assert(true  == bsl::is_member_pointer<DataMemPtr>::value);
assert(true  == bsl::is_member_pointer<MyStructMethodPtr>::value);

Note that if the current compiler supports the variable templates C++14 feature then we can re-write the snippet of code above using the bsl::is_member_pointer_v variable as follows:

#ifdef BSLS_COMPILERFEATURES_SUPPORT_VARIABLE_TEMPLATES
  assert(false == bsl::is_member_pointer_v<int*>);
  assert(false == bsl::is_member_pointer_v<MyFunctionPtr>);
  assert(true  == bsl::is_member_pointer_v<DataMemPtr>);
  assert(true  == bsl::is_member_pointer_v<MyStructMethodPtr>);
#endif