LUMIERA.clone/research/try.cpp
Ichthyostega 5191073558 Library: continue Investigation with workaround, inconclusive yet
A simple yet weird workaround (and basically equivalent to our helper function)
is to wrap the argument tuple itself into std::forward<Args> -- which has the
effect of exposing RValue references to the forwarding function, thus silencing
the compiler.

I am not happy with this result, since it contradicts the notion of perfect forwarding.

As an asside, the ressearch has sorted out some secondary suspicions..
- it is *not* the Varargs argument pack as such
- it is *not* the VerbToken type as such

The problem clearly is related to exposing tuple elements to a forwarding function.
2019-04-20 17:27:47 +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
// 12/18 - investigate the trinomial random number algorithm from the C standard lib
// 04/19 - forwarding tuple element(s) to function invocation
/** @file try.cpp
* Research how to apply a tuple to a varargs function forwarder.
* The recent standard library has a std::apply, which we can not yet use, unfortunately.
* @note this research remains inconclusive. As far as I can see, the simplified setup
* exactly mimics the problematic call situation; however, in the real use case,
* we need to std::forward<Args> the argument tuple object field while here in
* this simplified case, it compiles just fine without -- as it should after all,
* since that is the whole point of perfect forwarding; std::get should expose
* a LValue reference to the tuple element, and we pass that through a forwarding
* function into the double dispatch to the receiving visitor.
*/
typedef unsigned int uint;
#include "lib/format-cout.hpp"
#include "lib/test/test-helper.hpp"
#include "lib/util.hpp"
#include "lib/meta/variadic-helper.hpp"
#include <utility>
#include <string>
#include <tuple>
using std::string;
using std::tuple;
#define SHOW_TYPE(_TY_) \
cout << "typeof( " << STRINGIFY(_TY_) << " )= " << lib::meta::typeStr<_TY_>() <<endl;
#define SHOW_EXPR(_XX_) \
cout << "Probe " << STRINGIFY(_XX_) << " ? = " << _XX_ <<endl;
template<typename FUN, typename...ARGS>
void
forwardInvoker (FUN& fun, ARGS&&... args)
{
cout << "forwardInvoker...\n"
<< lib::test::showVariadicTypes(args...)
<< endl;
fun (std::forward<ARGS>(args)...);
}
template<typename FUN, typename...ARGS>
struct Holder
{
using Tup = tuple<ARGS...>;
Tup tup;
Holder (Tup& tup)
: tup{tup}
{ }
template<size_t...idx>
void
unpack_and_forward (FUN& fun, lib::meta::IndexSeq<idx...>)
{
cout << "unpack_and_forward...\n";
SHOW_TYPE (Tup)
forwardInvoker (fun, std::get<idx> (tup)...);
}
void
applyTuple (FUN& fun)
{
cout << "applyTuple...\n";
SHOW_TYPE (Tup)
using SequenceIterator = typename lib::meta::BuildIdxIter<ARGS...>::Ascending;
unpack_and_forward (fun, SequenceIterator());
}
};
int
main (int, char**)
{
auto tup = std::make_tuple(1,2,3);
auto fun = [](int a, int b, int c)
{
cout << a<<"+"<<b<<"+"<<c<<"="<<(a+b+c)<<endl;
};
using Hol = Holder<decltype(fun), int, int, int>;
Hol holder(tup);
holder.applyTuple (fun);
cout << "\n.gulp.\n";
return 0;
}