Initializing class with a lambda passed into constructor, C++11 - c++11

Lets consider following example:
#include <functional>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
class Caller {
public:
Caller(function<void()> callback) {
callback();
}
};
main() {
#if defined(ONELINER)
Caller caller = [] { cout << "test"; };
#else
function<void()> fun = [] { cout << "test"; };
Caller caller(fun);
#endif // defined(ONELINER)
}
If we simply try to compile it (with -std=c++11 flag) it will happily finish, and display test when run. However if we define ONELINER macro compilation will fail with:
prog.cpp: In function 'int main()':
prog.cpp:17:40: error: conversion from 'main()::<lambda()>' to non-scalar type 'Caller' requested
Caller caller = [] { cout << "test"; };
I understand that this is caused by the fact that there is implicit conversion from lambda to std::function and then implicit conversion from std::function to Caller, and we cannot perform 2 conversions at the same time.
Is it somehow possible to make syntax Class object = lambda; work? I'm asking because I played recently with writing my own small testing framework for educational reasons and I thought that this:
UNIT_TEST(test_name) {
// test content
};
is much more elegant than
UNIT_TEST_BEGIN(test_name)
// unit test
UNIT_TEST_END()
The former can be achieved with lambdas passed into the UnitTest constructor. But with problem that I described I had to use dirty workaround like:
#define UNIT_TEST(test_name) \
::std::function<void(::Helper*)> test_name_helper; \
::UnitTest test_name ## _test = \
test_name_helper = \
[&] (::Helper* helper)
and it doesn't look elegant at all. But even if this can be done without lambdas I'm still intrigued whether Class object = lamda; syntax can be achieved.

Modify the constructor as such:
template<typename CB>
Caller(CB callback) {
callback();
}
That will allow it to accept any callable argument, be it a lambda, a std::function, function pointer or functor.
Unfortunately the constructor will also accept any other type as well, but give a compiler error when callback can't be "called" like a function.

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C++11 Inject lambda expression into class

The common type-erasure libraries are all C++14 or C++17. As I am stuck to C++11 I thought about writing my own. The problem is that I can't make following code work:
struct Drawable {
void draw() const { poly_call<0>(*this); }
//How has this macro to look like?
MAKE_VTABLE([](T const& self) { self.draw(); })
};
//My library-code:
using VTableForT = decltype(Drawable::GetVTable<T>());
To clarify, in C++14 it could look like:
#define MAKE_VTABLE(lambda) \
template<class T> \
static auto GetVTable() { \
return lambda; \
}
But auto-return is not yet available in C++11. Any ideas? For me it does not matter whether GetVTable is a static function or a static variable of what ever. I just want to let the user call the macro with his lambda expression and later get its type within my library-code.
Firstly, you will have to mark the draw as const if you want to be able to pass Drawable to GetVTable, since the argument is marked const (in the returning lambda) and we can only call const marked function inside.
Now to the actual question.
What are your requirements? Do you necessarily want to return a lambda from GetVTable or would another Callabe do?
Returning lambdas from functions is always messy.
A possible fix comes from using std::function
The return type will become std::function <void(T const&)>
Thus the code looks like :
#define MAKE_VTABLE(lambda) \
template<class T> \
static std::function<void(T const&)> GetVTable() { \
return lambda; \
}
Remember to #include functional for this.
Since your return lambda doesn't capture anything, it can also be converted to a bare function pointer.
// A helper using declaration for return type
template <class T>
using ret_t = void (*) (T const&);
// The macro
#define MAKE_VTABLE(lambda) \
template<class T> \
static ret_t<T> GetVTable() { \
return lambda; \
}
You could, of course, do away with the helper function and write it directly in the place of auto.

Two step constructions for enable_shared_from_this object that needs to pass std::shared_ptr<self> to children created in constructor

I know that additional initialization methods are evil, as they leave a very nasty option for having object half-constructed and as result all methods needs to check for this. But what about this situation?
class config;
class cfg_item final
{
private:
friend class config;
cfg_item(std::weak_ptr<config> owner) : owner(owner) { }
std::weak_ptr<config> owner;
}
class config final : private std::enable_shared_from_this<config>
{
public:
config()
{
items.emplace(std::make_shared<cfg_item>(weak_from_this())); // Will crash!
}
private:
std::vector<std::shared_ptr<cfg_item>> items;
}
int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
std::shared_ptr<config> cfg = std::make_shared<config>();
}
I KNOW WHY IT CRASHES. The std::shared_ptr in the main is not yet initialized with shared pointer to config instance, so constructor does not know how to make weak_from_this and just raises std::bad_weak_ptr exception because there are no valid std::shared_ptr pointing to this at constructor's call time.
The question is: how can I avoided the whole thing? I believe the only way I see would be to add separate initialization method, which is evil as I've already mentioned...
As note about real code: the constructors loads cfg_item from external source. It is assumed that all cfg_items are available for the entire lifetime of config. The weak pointers back to config are mandatory, as cfg_item must push all changes done to it back to config to save to external source
If you look at the answers to this question, there are strong arguments why an external initialization function is necessary. However, you rightfully write
I know that additional initialization methods are evil, as they leave a very nasty option for having object half-constructed and as result all methods needs to check for this.
it's possible to reduce this problem. Say you have a class foo, with the protocol that each time a foo object is constructed, foo::init() needs to be called. Obviously, this is a brittle class (client code will eventually omit calls to init()).
So, one way is to make the (non-copy / non-move) constructors of foo private, and create a variadic static factory method that creates objects, then calls init():
#include <utility>
class foo {
private:
foo() {}
foo(int) {}
void init() {}
public:
template<typename ...Args>
static foo create(Args &&...args) {
foo f{std::forward<Args>(args)...};
f.init();
return f;
}
};
In the following code
template<typename ...Args>
static foo create(Args &&...args) {
foo f{std::forward<Args>(args)...};
f.init();
return f;
}
note that this single method can be used for all constructors, regardless of their signature. Furthermore, since it is static, it is external to the constructor, and doesn't have the problems in your question.
You can use it as follows:
int main() {
auto f0 = foo::create();
auto f1 = foo::create(2);
// Next line doesn't compile if uncommented
// foo f2;
}
Note that it's impossible to create an object without this method, and the interface doesn't even contain init.

Use LLVM/Clang to find fclose() calls in an Xcode project

I would like to learn how I might programmatically integrate with LLVM/Clang to find all of the fclose() calls in my Xcode project. I realize I can accomplish this via normal text searching but this is just the first step in a more detailed problem.
You can write function pass and find the name of the function as below:
#include "llvm/Pass.h"
#include "llvm/IR/Function.h"
#include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
using namespace llvm;
namespace {
struct Hello : public FunctionPass {
static char ID;
Hello() : FunctionPass(ID) {}
virtual bool runOnFunction(Function &F) {
errs() << "Hello: ";
errs().write_escaped(F.getName()) << '\n';
return false;
}
};
}
char Hello::ID = 0;
static RegisterPass<Hello> X("hello", "Hello World Pass", false, false);
Call this pass from opt using opt -hello input.ll and you will get the names of all functions printed. Change the logic in the above code to find your required function. See the following link for more details on writing passes:
http://llvm.org/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html

std::unique_ptr declared on base class

Sorry about the title, I couldn't come with a better one.
Suppose that I have a class with special delete semantics, which needs to call a function instead of been deleted by delete, let's call it releaseable_object:
struct releaseable_object
{
releaseable_object() : dummy_ptr(new int) {}
void Release()
{
std::cout << "Releasing releaseable object\n";
delete dummy_ptr;
}
int *const dummy_ptr;
};
And this releaseable_object is the base class of a bunch of other objects, each of them constructed by a factory which only returns pointers.
I'm trying to wrap each class into a std::unique_ptr with a custom deleter which call the releaseable_object::Release() function, so I've created a helper struct to handle some of the generic stuff:
// std::is_base_of<releaseable_object, T>::value must be true
template <typename T> struct Managed
{
using type = T;
static void deleter(type *object)
{
std::cout << "Release!\n";
object->Release();
};
using pointer = std::unique_ptr<T, decltype(deleter)>;
};
And then, a bunch of derived classes which does all the specific initializations and calls to te factory:
struct ManagedA : Managed<A>
{
using base = Managed<A>;
using base::pointer;
using base::deleter;
ManagedA(/* lots of parameters */) :
m_pointer(nullptr, deleter)
{
// do A specific stuff...
A *a = factory::CreateA(/* lots of parameters */);
// more A specific stuff...
// wrap the pointer:
m_pointer.reset(a);
}
pointer m_pointer;
};
If I try to compile the code above, it complains about the unique_ptr (demo here), I don't know what I'm doing wrong there, the error is about the instantiation of a tuple (the complete error log is in the ideone demo):
tuple: In instantiation of ‘struct std::_Head_base<1u, void(A*), false>’:
tuple:229:12: recursively required from ‘struct std::_Tuple_impl<1u, void(A*)>’
tuple:229:12: required from ‘struct std::_Tuple_impl<0u, A*, void(A*)>’
tuple:521:11: required from ‘class std::tuple<A*, void(A*)>’
bits/unique_ptr.h:127:57: required from ‘class std::unique_ptr<A, void(A*)>’
If I get rid of the m_pointer member then the compilation succeeds. I'm pretty lost with this, I'll be grateful of any hints about how to fix the compilation error.
Thanks for your attention.
The problem is that decltype(deleter) is a function type instead of a pointer-to-function type. Changing the pointer declaration to
using pointer = std::unique_ptr<T, decltype(deleter)*>; // or spell out void(*)(T*)
will fix it.
Be aware that a function object type is usually preferable to a function pointer type for a unique pointer deleter, since the function pointer must be stored in the object itself. i.e.,
sizeof(std::unique_ptr<foo*,void(*)(foo*)>) == sizeof(foo*) + sizeof(void(*)(foo*))
but most implementations will take advantage of the Empty Base Optimization if you use an empty deleter type:
struct deleter_type {
void operator () (foo*) {
// ...
}
};
sizeof(std::unique_ptr<foo*,deleter_type>) == sizeof(foo*)
Here's how your sample code would be written using a deleter type..

C++11 Lambda function compilation error

i am new using c++11 features and also tryng to use SDL_Widget-2 lib for build a simple Gui for my project. But i am getting stuck in the problem :
#include "sdl-widgets.h"
class Builder
{
public:
Builder():top_win(nullptr)
,but(nullptr)
{
top_win=new TopWin("Hello",Rect(100,100,120,100),0,0,false,
[]() {
top_win->clear();
draw_title_ttf->draw_string(top_win->render,"Hello world!",Point(20,40));
}
);
but=new Button(top_win,0,Rect(5,10,60,0),"catch me",
[](Button *b) {
static int dy=60;
b->hide();
b->move(0,dy);
b->hidden=false;
dy= dy==60 ? -60 : 60;
});
}
private:
TopWin * top_win;
Button *but;
};
int main(int,char**) {
Builder aViewBuilder;
get_events();
return 0;
}
with the error in the compilation stage:
In lambda function:
error: 'this' was not captured for this lambda function
error: 'this' was not captured for this lambda function
this error is printed out twice int the console.
I have try :
[this](){}
[=](){}
and
[&](){}
with different compile error but a cannot go more further.
Can any see a fix?
You do need to capture with [this] or [&]. I suspect that the TopWin and Button constructors take raw function pointers, and need to take std::functions instead.
A plain vanilla function pointer is not compatible with capturing lambdas. std::function is able to work like a function pointer that also allows safe storage of captured data. (i.e. the captured objects will need to be properly copied or destroyed when the function object is itself copied or destroyed)

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