Re: Type of comparisons and conditionals
"Jim Langston" <tazmaster@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
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"Frederick Gotham" <fgothamNO@SPAM.com> wrote in message
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Jerry Coffin posted:
#include <iostream>
void f(bool) {
std::cout << "Type is bool.";
}
void f(int) {
std::cout << "Type is int.";
}
int main() {
f(2<1);
}
With any properly-functioning C++ compiler will print "Type is bool."
Yes, I tested that myself before posting... but I wanted more assurance.
I trust my compiler for some tests, but not for others.
Consider if I wanted to test whether the following two objects are
sequentially contiguous in memory (and without any padding in between):
double a, b;
if(1 == &b - &a) cout << "Yes, they're sequentially contiguous!";
I would be naive to presume that, just because my compiler does it that
way, that that's how the Standard says it has to be done.
Subtracting or adding two pointers is undefined. Better would be
if ( &a + sizeof( double ) == &b ) std::cout << "Yes, they're sequentially
contiguous!";
Incidently, read somewhere that it is defined (subtracting two pointers) if
they are pointers to the same object. So if it's well defined or not is a
little ambiguous to me here, but better to use the pointer addition as it
should be better defined. (There may be cases where it's undefined, such as
when the addion points past the page frame)
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