From: SVisor <svisor@lycos.com>
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inherited member( void )const - const to be or not to be
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <chknvj$ca2$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040907075501.01eafe30@iplan-mn.corp.adobe.com>
Hi and thanks for the reply, but I do not agree...
...
> Don't use _CONST ... that's a reserved symbol.
Well that was news. Anyway it was just "dummy" code.
...
> All symbols starting with underscore followed by a capital letter are
> reserved. All symbols with two underscores in a row anywhere are reserved.
name__more is not reserved. __name is reserved. Usage of _Name is not
recomended, but what I know not reserved. At least thats what I have
been taught. No one has _ever_ shown proof of anything else (heck no one
has shown me proof of what Ive learned, I just have accepted it ;-). Do
you have any link to a list of which combinations are reserved and which
are not?
> I've fixed your code, works now just fine. Compiled either way.
NO! You _broke_ it! Now you return a pointer to constant, and thats
_NOT_ what I wanted. I wanted to hint the compiler that a function does
not change members, but I can still change members (and call non
constant member-functions) using the returned pointer (and its legal
C++). The question was more about cast from "this", like this:
virtual CProvider* getProvider( void )const{ return (CProvider*)this; }
It will compile and provide sane working code, but its C (not C++)
styled. And the cast is not _safe_: The code would compile even if the
class would not inherit from CProvider.
...
> BTW: using the -DCONST=const is preferred. So much so, that you should
I do not agree as thats not portable across all compilers. While my
construct is (well 99.9% of them at least). The code was just dummy code
to show a point, and make it easy to test. You usually know if something
is const or not :-).
// Jarmo
--
> just have const in the code. Const correctness should be worked in from
> the beginning.
>
> HTH,
> --Eljay
>
> - - - - - - - - -
> // Compile #1: g++ -DCONST=const foo.cpp
> // Compile #2: g++ -DCONST= foo.cpp
> #include <cstdio>
>
> class CProvider
> {
> protected:
> const char* str;
> public:
> CProvider(const char* s)
> : str(s)
> {
> printf("CProvider(%s)\n",str);
> }
>
> void echo() CONST
> {
> printf("CProvider(%s)::echo()\n", str);
> }
> };
>
>
> class CAbstract
> {
> public:
> CAbstract()
> {
> printf("CAbstract\n");
> }
>
> virtual ~CAbstract()
> { }
>
> virtual CProvider CONST* getProvider() CONST = 0;
> };
>
>
> class CAllocated : public CAbstract
> {
> protected:
> CProvider* ptr;
>
> public:
> CAllocated()
> {
> printf("CAllocated\n");
> ptr = new CProvider("Allocated");
> }
>
> virtual CProvider CONST* getProvider() CONST
> {
> return ptr;
> }
> };
>
>
> class CInherited : public CAbstract, public CProvider
> {
> public:
> CInherited()
> : CProvider("Inherited")
> {
> printf("CInherited\n");
> }
>
> virtual CProvider CONST* getProvider() CONST
> {
> return this;
> }
> };
>
>
> int main()
> {
> CAllocated tmp1;
> CInherited tmp2;
>
> tmp1.getProvider()->echo();
> tmp2.getProvider()->echo();
>
> CAbstract* pTmp1 = &tmp1;
> CAbstract* pTmp2 = &tmp2;
> pTmp1->getProvider()->echo();
> pTmp2->getProvider()->echo();
> }
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-07 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-06 11:01 SVisor
2004-09-07 12:58 ` Eljay Love-Jensen
2004-09-07 16:35 ` SVisor [this message]
2004-09-07 17:10 ` Eljay Love-Jensen
2004-09-21 13:34 ` Claudio Bley
2004-09-21 13:41 ` Claudio Bley
2004-09-07 16:40 lrtaylor
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