lumiera_/research/try.cpp
Ichthyostega fa6ba76f85 investigate insidious ill-guided conversion
As it turns out, using the functional-notation form conversion
with *parentheses* will fall back on a C-style (wild, re-interpret) cast
when the target type is *not* a class. As in the case in question here, where
it is a const& to a class. To the contrary, using *curly braces* will always
attempt to go through a constructor, and thus fail as expected, when there is
no conversion path available.

I wasn't aware of that pitfall. I noticed it since the recently introduced
class TimelineGui lacked a conversion operator to BareEntryID const& and just
happily used the TimelineGui object itself and did a reinterpret_cast into BareEntryID
2018-10-12 23:42:56 +02:00

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/* try.cpp - for trying out some language features....
* scons will create the binary bin/try
*
*/
// 8/07 - how to control NOBUG??
// execute with NOBUG_LOG='ttt:TRACE' bin/try
// 1/08 - working out a static initialisation problem for Visitor (Tag creation)
// 1/08 - check 64bit longs
// 4/08 - comparison operators on shared_ptr<Asset>
// 4/08 - conversions on the value_type used for boost::any
// 5/08 - how to guard a downcasting access, so it is compiled in only if the involved types are convertible
// 7/08 - combining partial specialisation and subclasses
// 10/8 - abusing the STL containers to hold noncopyable values
// 6/09 - investigating how to build a mixin template providing an operator bool()
// 12/9 - tracking down a strange "warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type"
// 1/10 - can we determine at compile time the presence of a certain function (for duck-typing)?
// 4/10 - pretty printing STL containers with python enabled GDB?
// 1/11 - exploring numeric limits
// 1/11 - integer floor and wrap operation(s)
// 1/11 - how to fetch the path of the own executable -- at least under Linux?
// 10/11 - simple demo using a pointer and a struct
// 11/11 - using the boost random number generator(s)
// 12/11 - how to detect if string conversion is possible?
// 1/12 - is partial application of member functions possible?
// 5/14 - c++11 transition: detect empty function object
// 7/14 - c++11 transition: std hash function vs. boost hash
// 9/14 - variadic templates and perfect forwarding
// 11/14 - pointer to member functions and name mangling
// 8/15 - Segfault when loading into GDB (on Debian/Jessie 64bit
// 8/15 - generalising the Variant::Visitor
// 1/16 - generic to-string conversion for ostream
// 1/16 - build tuple from runtime-typed variant container
// 3/17 - generic function signature traits, including support for Lambdas
// 9/17 - manipulate variadic templates to treat varargs in several chunks
// 11/17 - metaprogramming to detect the presence of extension points
// 11/17 - detect generic lambda
// 12/17 - investigate SFINAE failure. Reason was indirect use while in template instantiation
// 03/18 - Dependency Injection / Singleton initialisation / double checked locking
// 04/18 - investigate construction of static template members
// 08/18 - Segfault when compiling some regular expressions for EventLog search
// 10/18 - investigate insidious reinterpret cast
/** @file try.cpp
* Document an insidious wild cast, caused by the syntax `Type(arg)`.
* I was under the wrong assumption this would be handled equivalent to a constructor invocation.
* Seemingly it is rather handled as a C-style cast, i.e. equivalent to `(Type)arg`.
* @see [Question on Stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/q/52782967/444796)
*/
typedef unsigned int uint;
#include "lib/format-cout.hpp"
#include "lib/test/test-helper.hpp"
#include "lib/util.hpp"
#include <string>
using std::string;
using util::isSameObject;
#define SHOW_TYPE(_TY_) \
cout << "typeof( " << STRINGIFY(_TY_) << " )= " << lib::meta::typeStr<_TY_>() <<endl;
#define SHOW_EXPR(_XX_) \
cout << "Probe " << STRINGIFY(_XX_) << " ? = " << _XX_ <<endl;
class Wau
{
int i = -1;
};
class Miau
{
public:
uint u = 1;
};
int
main (int, char**)
{
Wau wau;
using ID = Miau &;
ID wuff = ID(wau);
cout << "Miau=" << wuff.u
<< " ref to same object: " << isSameObject (wau, wuff)
<< endl;
cout << "\n.gulp.\n";
return 0;
}