On 7/28/07, Joaquin M Lopez Munoz wrote:

David Abrahams writes:

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on Fri Jul 27 2007, "JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z" wrote:

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According to the MPL reference, a placeholder expression X must satisfy (among others) the following condition:

"All of X's template parameters, including the default ones, are types."

According to that the following should then compile without errors: [...] I don't see how you can conclude the above will compile without error just from (a part of) the definition of placeholder expression.

Are you saying that since foo<_1> is not a placeholder expression, when applied to int it should be treated as a metafunction class?

Yes, this is exactly my point. Another way in which foo<_1> can be forced to not be treated as a ph expression is this:

// no of parms > BOOST_MPL_LIMIT_METAFUNCTION_ARITY template struct foo { template<typename Q> struct apply{ typedef Q type; }; };

You can try yourself this variation and see that the program really resolves to t1 <- int. But for some reason, the int=0 variation does not do the same, at least in GCC 3.4.4.

Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

PS: I'd greatly appreciate if you could you try the snippet (the int=0 version) with other compilers --my current compiler count is so very limited. Thx!

PPS: In case you're wondering, this is not a purely academic question: I've got a real world scenario where I want to prevent foo<x> from being treated as a ph expression, namely when foo<x> is a metafunction class parameterized by a lambda expression (i.e. a ph expression or metafunction class) x.

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Hi, I tried the snippet with : gcc 4.1.2 : it doesn't compile because of the assert gcc 4.2.0 : it works icc 9.1 : it works. The second snippet works with all compilers. I already had a discussion about a similar problem on this list, and I finally conclude that not all compilers are using default parameters the same way: In a template template expression, some are expecting the non-type default parameter to be part of the template template expression, and others are not.

----- Mensaje original ----- De: Aleksey Gurtovoy Fecha: Sábado, Julio 28, 2007 11:14 pm Asunto: Re: [Boost-users] [mpl] what is not a placeholder expression Para: boost-users@lists.boost.org

""JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z"" wrote in message

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1. Whether I'm right in assuming that the code above should compile without assertion failures.

Yes.

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2. What the behavior is for other versions of GCC and compilers: reports most welcome!!

Basically, this is a GCC-specific problem caused by a non-conforming extension that was removed in 4.2.0 (http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html, search for "(undocumented) extension").

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3. Whether this is a known problem specific to GCC or, more generally, what the status of this issue is.

It is, and it's not a issue anymore starting with GCC 4.2. You should be able to work around it for older versions by providing a specialization of the 'boost::mpl::aux::template_arity' template along the following lines (untested):

template struct template_arity > : int_<-1> {};

Thank you thank you thank you for the very precise and authoritative information! Best regards, Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo