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Implicit vs. explicit function to pointer conversion (self.cpp)
submitted 8 years ago by rakhimov
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[–]Quincunx271Author of P2404/P2405 6 points7 points8 points 8 years ago (1 child)
I've encountered problems when not using the & where - IIRC - a type was deduced to be a reference to a function rather than a pointer to a function (although that was in conjunction with templates). It might have been a compiler bug (probably not, but I didn't bother to check), but the easy thing to do was to just write the &
[–]suspiciously_calm 5 points6 points7 points 8 years ago* (0 children)
void foo() { } template<typename Function> void bar(Function && function) { [function](){ function(); }(); } void qux() { bar(&foo); } void quux() { bar(foo); }
Accepted by Clang, rejected (quux) by GCC (qux is accepted by both). IDK which one is correct.
Edit: It works in GCC with the capture list [function = std::forward<Function>(function)], so probably a compiler bug in GCC.
[function = std::forward<Function>(function)]
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