On 6 Feb 2006, at 00:36, Edward Diener wrote:
Sebastian Redl wrote:
Edward Diener wrote:
Can you give an example of the compile-time use of reflection for templates and how this would be done ? Or have I completely misunderstood what you and Sebastian Redl are discussing ?
Although this came up in a different branch of discussion, the topic of David and my discussion was about the hardships of implementing a solution that could, at run-time, instantiate a template and load the newly generated code into the application.
Clearly one can normally, from a template definition, instantiate a template at run-time in C++ now. How is this different from what you are suggesting above ?
We do have a user request to do exactly this with Reflex. I think it should be possible along the ideas of this thread. What we want to do is what you were discussing, - generate the dictionary sources (with python/genreflex.py - invoking gccxml) - compile the so generated dictionary source into a module (shared lib) - dynamically open the library and load the dictionary information There is a project already at CERN which does exactly this, so it should be feasible. -- Stefan Roiser CERN, PH Department CH - 1211 Geneva 23 Mob:+41 76 487 5334 Tel:+41 22 767 4838 Fax:+41 22 767 9425