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From: Igor Boukanov <igor.boukanov@fi.uib.no>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: "typeof" keyword
Date: 1999/08/16
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> You could use a potentially standard auxiliary class template:
> 
> template < typename T > struct object { static T &o; };
> 
> template < typename A, typename B, typename C >
> typeof(object<A>::o * object<B>::o + object<C>::o)
> MultiplyAdd(const A &a, const B &b, const C &c)
> {
>         return a * b + c;
> }
> 
> g++ 2.95, which implements typeof, gets an internal compiler error on this.

And g++ 2.95 also gets killed by  

template <typename A, typename B, typename C>
typeof( (*(const A*)0) * (*(const B*)0) + (*(const C*)0) )
MultiplyAdd(const A &a, const B &b, const C &c)
{
        return a * b + c;
}

Regards, Igor

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