I'm sure I've seen the answer around and plum forgot about it, but is there a way to say, overload a function number of arguments that I may not know until runtime. The arguments would be of the same type, but it could be two or three or n sized. I ususally just have a vector plugged in to the parameter and that's that. But just curios.
You may be thinking of this:
This is not legal:Code:func(int a, in b, ...)
Code:func( ...)
Yes, by using the ... syntax:
Takes a variable number of arguments. You need to use some special code to fetch the argument. There are:Code:void foo(T first, ...)
va_start
va_end
va_list
va_arg
Code:void foo(int first, ...) { va_list list; va_start(list, &first); int n = va_arg(list, int); double d = va_arg(list, double); char* p = va_arg(list, char*); va_end(list); }
Last edited by Elysia; 01-25-2008 at 08:57 AM.
Originally Posted by Adak
ah, very messy looking, I'll just stick to what I was doing originally, but thanks for the info, just curious.
Yeah, also, since it's variable, there's no way to tell the end of the list.
As you may have noticed, if you use functions such as sprintf or things and specify more type specifiers in the format list than arguments you pass, you get junk data because it doesn't know you only passed X arguments.
The usual way is simply to pass along some sort of "end" value like NULL.
Those functions must also use C calling convention so the caller cleans up the stack.
Or pass a count value as the first parameter.
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I'll admit, I never thought of that
But then again, I don't use variable arguments very much.
On a side note, the C++0x standard is supposed to fix this by introducing a new containers to hold variable arguments. Very nice, if I may say so.
Of course, you can design your own such class. It wouldn't be very hard, I think.
Last edited by Elysia; 01-25-2008 at 09:18 AM.
yeah, the more I think of it the uglier it is.
For what I want a simple array or vector would do since it won't be a heavily user input based class. Since hte class I need it for has a vector member that they will assign to anyway I can do it pretty easily, or just take it input wise.
