make_unique does not compile
Solution 1
Variadic templates aren't available in the released version of Visual C++ 11. You can, however, simulate the argument expansion with either lots of copy/paste code for different number of parameters, or use the same compiler tricks used in Microsoft's own implementation of "pseudo-variadics". From this comment on Herb Sutter's blog: http://herbsutter.com/gotw/_102/#comment-6428
#include <memory> // brings in TEMPLATE macros.
#define _MAKE_UNIQUE(TEMPLATE_LIST, PADDING_LIST, LIST, COMMA, X1, X2, X3, X4) \
\
template<class T COMMA LIST(_CLASS_TYPE)> \
inline std::unique_ptr<T> make_unique(LIST(_TYPE_REFREF_ARG)) \
{ \
return std::unique_ptr<T>(new T(LIST(_FORWARD_ARG))); \
}
_VARIADIC_EXPAND_0X(_MAKE_UNIQUE, , , , )
#undef _MAKE_UNIQUE
Solution 2
According to MSDN, variadic templates are not supported in Visual C++ 2010 or 2012.
Saage
Updated on July 24, 2022Comments
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Saage almost 2 years
I'm trying to create and use
make_unique
forstd::unique_ptr
, in the same waystd::make_shared
exists forstd::shared_ptr
described here. Herb Sutter mentions the possible implementation ofmake_unique
that looks like this:template<typename T, typename ...Args> std::unique_ptr<T> make_unique( Args&& ...args ) { return std::unique_ptr<T>( new T( std::forward<Args>(args)... ) ); }
It doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using the following sample program:
// testproject.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. #include "stdafx.h" #include <iostream> #include <memory> #include <utility> struct A { A(int&& n) { std::cout << "rvalue overload, n=" << n << "\n"; } A(int& n) { std::cout << "lvalue overload, n=" << n << "\n"; } }; template<typename T, typename ...Args> std::unique_ptr<T> make_unique( Args&& ...args ) { return std::unique_ptr<T>( new T( std::forward<Args>(args)... ) ); } int main() { std::unique_ptr<A> p1 = make_unique<A>(2); // rvalue int i = 1; std::unique_ptr<A> p2 = make_unique<A>(i); // lvalue }
And the compiler (I'm using VS2010) gives me the following output:
1>d:\projects\testproject\testproject\testproject.cpp(15): error C2143: syntax error : missing ',' before '...' 1>d:\projects\testproject\testproject\testproject.cpp(16): error C2065: 'Args' : undeclared identifier 1>d:\projects\testproject\testproject\testproject.cpp(16): error C2988: unrecognizable template declaration/definition 1>d:\projects\testproject\testproject\testproject.cpp(16): error C2059: syntax error : '...' 1>d:\projects\testproject\testproject\testproject.cpp(22): error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '{' 1>d:\projects\testproject\testproject\testproject.cpp(22): error C2447: '{' : missing function header (old-style formal list?)
Also if you replace the
make_unique
implementation to the followingtemplate<class T, class U> std::unique_ptr<T> make_unique(U&& u) { return std::unique_ptr<T>(new T(std::forward<U>(u))); }
(which is taken from this example), it compiles and works fine.
Can anyone tell me what's the problem? It seems to me that VS2010 is having some trouble with
...
in template declaration, and I don't know what can I do about it. -
Stephan Dollberg over 11 yearsThey are supported in the CTP.
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Mooing Duck over 11 years
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Matthieu M. over 11 yearsNote: the use of
_[A-Z].*
identifiers is reserved to the implementation (in your case, the VC++ compiler and the Dirkumware STL). -
Bret Kuhns over 11 years@MatthieuM. Thanks for pointing that out, I personally don't like to start identifiers with
_
. When I implementedmake_unique()
at work, I expanded the code to 10 parameters by hand (err, copy/paste) and dumped it in a utility namespace to avoid conflicting with a futurestd
implementation.