Re: How to override operator=,+,-,*,% for non-class types like int, long, etc. in C

From:

"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:42:43 -0500

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Yang Ming wrote:

Igor Tandetnik wrote:

"Yang Ming" <ming.3.yang@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:eXgSOKJqJHA.6096@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl

  I have a problem which I can't seem to find others who have the
same problem. For example, consider the following C code:

int main( )
{
   #define MAX_LEN 0x8000

   int i = 0;

   i = MAX_LEN * 2;

   return 1;
}

  Is that possible to override above operator = and operator * ?

No. You can only provide user-defined operators for classes, not for
built-in types. Why would you want to, anyway? What's the goal of the
exercise?

   I have a 'old' VC project(dsp) that contains many many C files. Now
I need to porting this project from 32-bit platform to 16-bit
platform. So, I would like to override operator=,+,-,*,% for checking
potential problems, e.g. runtime implicit conversion, data overflow,
truncated data, etc. For example:

void foo( void * p1, void * p2 )
{
   int nResult = 0;

   if( p1 &&
       p2 )
   {
      nResult = (int)(*p1) + (int)(*p2);
   }

   ...

}

   In above example, the nResult may overflow after porting to 16-bit
platform(In theory, it may also happen even on 32-bit platform Of
course).
   If it's possible to override operator +, I can check if the result
is overflow or not, then I can output a warning or something to help
me identify potential porting problems; otherwise I have to check
code line by line.

How about something like:

#if _DEBUG
#define int checked_math<__int16>
#endif

Then write a checked_math template that provides all the usual operations
but performs the checks you want.

You WILL need C++ for this, there is no such thing as operator overriding in
C.

Br,
Yang Ming

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