type_traits.h revision 193323
1193323Sed//===- llvm/Support/type_traits.h - Simplfied type traits -------*- C++ -*-===//
2193323Sed//
3193323Sed//                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
4193323Sed//
5193323Sed// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
6193323Sed// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
7193323Sed//
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9193323Sed//
10193323Sed// This file provides a template class that determines if a type is a class or
11193323Sed// not. The basic mechanism, based on using the pointer to member function of
12193323Sed// a zero argument to a function was "boosted" from the boost type_traits
13193323Sed// library. See http://www.boost.org/ for all the gory details.
14193323Sed//
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16193323Sed
17193323Sed#ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_TYPE_TRAITS_H
18193323Sed#define LLVM_SUPPORT_TYPE_TRAITS_H
19193323Sed
20193323Sed// This is actually the conforming implementation which works with abstract
21193323Sed// classes.  However, enough compilers have trouble with it that most will use
22193323Sed// the one in boost/type_traits/object_traits.hpp. This implementation actually
23193323Sed// works with VC7.0, but other interactions seem to fail when we use it.
24193323Sed
25193323Sednamespace llvm {
26193323Sed
27193323Sednamespace dont_use
28193323Sed{
29193323Sed    // These two functions should never be used. They are helpers to
30193323Sed    // the is_class template below. They cannot be located inside
31193323Sed    // is_class because doing so causes at least GCC to think that
32193323Sed    // the value of the "value" enumerator is not constant. Placing
33193323Sed    // them out here (for some strange reason) allows the sizeof
34193323Sed    // operator against them to magically be constant. This is
35193323Sed    // important to make the is_class<T>::value idiom zero cost. it
36193323Sed    // evaluates to a constant 1 or 0 depending on whether the
37193323Sed    // parameter T is a class or not (respectively).
38193323Sed    template<typename T> char is_class_helper(void(T::*)(void));
39193323Sed    template<typename T> double is_class_helper(...);
40193323Sed}
41193323Sed
42193323Sedtemplate <typename T>
43193323Sedstruct is_class
44193323Sed{
45193323Sed  // is_class<> metafunction due to Paul Mensonides (leavings@attbi.com). For
46193323Sed  // more details:
47193323Sed  // http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=000001c1cc83%24e154d5e0%247772e50c%40c161550a&rnum=1
48193323Sed public:
49193323Sed    enum { value = sizeof(char) == sizeof(dont_use::is_class_helper<T>(0)) };
50193323Sed};
51193323Sed
52193323Sed}
53193323Sed
54193323Sed#endif
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