Access is defined for a ref, but a const ref is required because the
calling member function of Value<int> is const (and so it's data must
be const protected).
Brian
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:45 PM, burlen <burlen.loring@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting the error that gcc cannot match my templated member function
> call. I'm not seeing where the ambiguity lies, can someone explain why g++
> doesn't find it?
>
> Here are the error
>
> $g++ minimal.cpp
> minimal.cpp: In member function ‘T Value<T>::GetValue() const [with T =
> int]’:
> minimal.cpp:59: instantiated from here
> minimal.cpp:46: error: no matching function for call to
> ‘ValueTraits<int>::Access(const ValueUnion&) const’
> minimal.cpp:24: note: candidates are: int
> ValueTraits<int>::Access(ValueUnion&) const
>
>
> Here is the code from minimal.cpp:
>
> #include <iostream>
> using std::cerr;
> using std::endl;
>
> //=============================================================================
> typedef union
> {
> int Int;
> double Double;
> }
> ValueUnion;
>
> //=============================================================================
> template <typename T>
> class ValueTraits {};
>
> //=============================================================================
> template<>
> class ValueTraits<int>
> {
> public:
> int Access(ValueUnion &vu) const { return vu.Int; }
> void Assign(ValueUnion &vu, int val){ vu.Int=val; }
> };
>
> //=============================================================================
> template<>
> class ValueTraits<double>
> {
> public:
> double Access(ValueUnion &vu) const { return vu.Double; }
> void Assign(ValueUnion &vu, double val){ vu.Double=val; }
> };
>
> //=============================================================================
> template<typename T>
> class Value
> {
> public:
> virtual T GetValue() const { return this->Traits.Access(this->Data); }
> virtual void SetValue(T data) { this->Traits.Assign(this->Data,data); }
>
> private:
> ValueTraits<T> Traits;
> ValueUnion Data;
> };
>
> //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> int main(int argc, char **ragv)
> {
> Value<int> iv;
> iv.SetValue(2);
> cerr << "iv=" << iv.GetValue() << endl;
>
> Value<double> dv;
> dv.SetValue(2.2);
> cerr << "dv=" << dv.GetValue() << endl;
>
> return 0;
> }
>
>
>
