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| Metaprogramming
This page documents library components that provide metaprogramming sorts of functionality. For
the most part they are useful for putting design by contract checks into code or doing various kinds of
clever things with templates.
For example, you might have a templated function that is templated on a type T and you want to
make sure that T is either a char or wchar_t type. You could place the following into your code
and it would cause the compile to error out when T was set to something other than char or wchar_t.
COMPILE_TIME_ASSERT((is_same_type<T,char>::value || is_same_type<T,wchar_t>::value)); |
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[top]ASSERT_ARE_NOT_SAME_TYPE
This is a macro function for debugging. Its form is ASSERT_ARE_NOT_SAME_TYPE(type1, type2).
If type1 and type2 are the same type then the compile will fail. This is sometimes useful
in validating template arguments.
#include <dlib/assert.h>Detailed Documentation [top]ASSERT_ARE_SAME_TYPE
This is a macro function for debugging. Its form is ASSERT_ARE_SAME_TYPE(type1, type2).
If type1 and type2 are not the same type then the compile will fail. This is sometimes useful
in validating template arguments.
#include <dlib/assert.h>Detailed Documentation [top]assign_zero_if_built_in_scalar_type
This function assigns its argument the value of 0 if it is a built in scalar
type according to the is_built_in_scalar_type
template. If it isn't a built in scalar type then it does nothing.
This function is useful for suppressing compiler warnings about uninitialized
types inside of templates that are designed to accept the built in types
as well as user defined classes.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]basic_type
This is a template that takes a type and strips off any const, volatile, or reference
qualifiers and gives you back the basic underlying type.
For example, promote<const int&>::type == int
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]COMPILE_TIME_ASSERT
This is a macro function for debugging. Its form is COMPILE_TIME_ASSERT(condition that should
be true). The condition must be a compile time constant and if it is false then the compile
will fail.
#include <dlib/assert.h>Detailed Documentation [top]DLIB_ASSERT
This is a macro function for debugging. Its form is DLIB_ASSERT(condition that should be
true,error message). If the condition is false DLIB_ASSERT throws an exception of type
dlib::fatal_error with fatal_error::type == EBROKEN_ASSERT. An error message detailing
the nature of the problem is stored in the member variable info which is of type std::string.
Look in the following file for more details. The exception classes are defined
here.
This macro is only enabled if _DEBUG, DEBUG or ENABLE_ASSERTS is defined. Also, if this macro is
enabled then ENABLE_ASSERTS will be defined even if you didn't define it.
Note that when this macro fails and throws an exception it also calls the global
C function dlib_assert_breakpoint(). This behavior makes it easy to set a debugging
tool to break when DLIB_ASSERT fails by setting a breakpoint on dlib_assert_breakpoint().
#include <dlib/assert.h>Detailed Documentation [top]DLIB_ASSERT_HAS_STANDARD_LAYOUT
This macro is meant to cause a compiler error if a type doesn't have a simple
memory layout (like a C struct). In particular, types with simple layouts are
ones which can be copied via memcpy().
This was called a POD type in C++03 and in C++0x we are looking to check if
it is a "standard layout type". Once we can use C++0x we can change this macro
to something that uses the std::is_standard_layout type_traits class.
See: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/C++0xFAQ.html#PODs
#include <dlib/assert.h>Detailed Documentation [top]DLIB_CASSERT
This is a macro function that is identical to the DLIB_ASSERT macro
except that it is always enabled. Even if _DEBUG, DEBUG and ENABLE_ASSERTS are not defined.
Note that when this macro fails and throws an exception it also calls the global
C function dlib_assert_breakpoint(). This behavior makes it easy to set a debugging
tool to break when DLIB_CASSERT fails by setting a breakpoint on dlib_assert_breakpoint().
#include <dlib/assert.h>Detailed Documentation [top]DLIB_MAKE_HAS_MEMBER_FUNCTION_TEST
The DLIB_MAKE_HAS_MEMBER_FUNCTION_TEST() macro is used to define traits templates
that tell you if a class has a certain member function. For example, to make a
test to see if a class has a public method with the signature void print(int) you
would say:
DLIB_MAKE_HAS_MEMBER_FUNCTION_TEST(has_print, void, print, (int))
Then you can check if a class, T, has this method by looking at the boolean value:
has_print<T>::value
which will be true if the member function is in the T class.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]DLIB_STACK_TRACE
This is a preprocessor macro that allows you to tag a function so
that dlib will keep track of it in a function call stack. That is,
you will be able to see a stack trace by calling get_stack_trace
if you put this macro at the top of your functions.
This macro is only enabled if DLIB_ENABLE_STACK_TRACE is defined. If it isn't defined then
this macro doesn't do anything. Also note that when this macro is defined it will
cause DLIB_ASSERT and DLIB_CASSERT
to include a stack trace in their error messages.
#include <dlib/assert.h>Detailed Documentation [top]DLIB_STACK_TRACE_NAMED
This is a preprocessor macro just like
DLIB_STACK_TRACE
except that it allows you to supply your own string to use as the function name
in the stack trace instead of the one deduced by DLIB_STACK_TRACE.
This macro is only enabled if DLIB_ENABLE_STACK_TRACE is defined.
#include <dlib/assert.h>Detailed Documentation [top]enable_if
This is a family of templates from the Boost C++ libraries that makes it somewhat easier to control
template specialization. For the details see
this page. Note that the header
dlib/enable_if.h brings
these templates into the dlib namespace.
#include <dlib/enable_if.h> [top]get_stack_trace
This function allows you to query the current stack trace.
This macro is only enabled if DLIB_ENABLE_STACK_TRACE is defined.
#include <dlib/assert.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_built_in_scalar_type
This is a template where is_built_in_scalar_type<T>::value == true when T
is a built in scalar type such as int, char, float, etc.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_complex
This is a template that can be used to determine if a type is a
specialization of std::complex.
#include <dlib/matrix.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_const_type
This is a template where is_const_type<T>::value == true when T is a const
type and false otherwise.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_convertible
This is a template that can be used to determine if one type is convertible
into another type.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_float_type
This is a template where is_float_type<T>::value == true when T is
a floating point type (i.e. float, double, or long double) and false otherwise.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_function
This is a template where is_function<T>::value == true when T is
a function type.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_matrix
This is a template where is_matrix<T>::value == true when T
is a
matrix object or some kind
of matrix expression.
#include <dlib/is_kind.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_pair
This is a template where is_pair<T>::value == true when T
is a std::pair object.
#include <dlib/is_kind.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_pointer_type
This is a template where is_pointer_type<T>::value == true when T is a pointer
type and false otherwise.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_reference_type
This is a template where is_reference_type<T>::value == true when T is a reference
type and false otherwise.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_same_object
This is a templated function which checks if both of its arguments are actually
references to the same object. It returns true if they are and false otherwise.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_same_type
This is a template where is_same_type<T,U>::value == true when T and U are
the same type and false otherwise.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_signed_type
This is a template where is_signed_type<T>::value == true when T is
a signed scalar type and false when it is an unsigned scalar
type.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]is_unsigned_type
This is a template where is_unsigned_type<T>::value == true when T is
an unsigned scalar type and false when it is a signed scalar
type.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]noncopyable
This is a simple class that makes it easy to declare a non-copyable object.
To use it to make your own class non-copyable just inherit from it.
#include <dlib/noncopyable.h>Detailed Documentation [top]portability_macros
This file #defines various macros depending on the platform being compiled under.
See the file itself for the specifics.
#include <dlib/platform.h>Detailed Documentation [top]promote
This is a template that takes one of the built in scalar types and gives you another
scalar type that should be big enough to hold sums of values from the original scalar
type. The new scalar type will also always be signed.
For example, promote<uint16>::type == int32
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]static_switch
To use this template you give it some number of boolean expressions and it
tells you which one of them is true. If more than one of them is true then
it causes a compile time error. It is useful for cases where you want to
specialize a template and you want to specialize it not by
the type of object it gets per say but instead according to the values of some
type traits associated with the various template arguments. A simple example of
this can be seen in the
assign_pixel's
implementation which can be found at the bottom of the
dlib/pixel.h file.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]unsigned_type
This is a template that allows you to obtain the unsigned version
of any integral type. For example, unsigned_type<signed short>::type ==
unsigned short.
#include <dlib/uintn.h>Detailed Documentation [top]wrap_function
This is a template that allows you to turn a global function into a
function object. See the specs for more details.
#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation [top]_dT
This is a macro function for converting a string/character literal to either a char or wchar_t literal.
Its form is
_dT(target character type,string or character literal)#include <dlib/algs.h>Detailed Documentation