you could try adding an extra set of parentheses, but you won't get as good
an error message.
OELock lock((mutex));
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Brian Cole <co...@eyesopen.com> wrote:
> Was hoping for something that would be C++03 compatible as well since we
> still have C++03 compilers to target as well.
>
> From: don hinton <hinto...@gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:38 AM
> To: Brian L Cole <co...@eyesopen.com>
> Cc: "cfe-users@lists.llvm.org" <cfe-users@lists.llvm.org>
> Subject: Re: [cfe-users] Anyway to prevent this code from compiling?
>
> Try using initialization list syntax. That way the parser won't think you
> are declaring a function.
>
> OELock lock{mutex};
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Brian Cole via cfe-users <
> cfe-users@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> Since switching over to clang C++11 on OS X, we had this weird C++ oddity
>> surface while writing some new code. The problem is that ‘mutex’ is no
>> longer a variable, it is a class type that can be interpreted as a function
>> argument. That is, the following line of code can be interpreted as a
>> function declaration now:
>>
>> OELock lock(mutex);
>>
>> Instead of a scoped lock acquisition as has been convention for some time
>> now. The full code to recreate the subtle bug is as follows:
>>
>> #include <mutex>
>>
>> using namespace std;
>>
>> struct OEMutex
>> {
>> void Acquire() {}
>> void Release() {}
>> };
>>
>> static OEMutex _mutex;
>>
>> class OELock
>> {
>> OEMutex &_mutex;
>> OELock();
>> OELock(const OELock&);
>> OELock& operator=(const OELock&);
>>
>> public:
>> OELock(OEMutex &mutex) : _mutex(mutex) { _mutex.Acquire(); }
>> ~OELock() { _mutex.Release(); }
>> };
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>> OELock lock(mutex);
>> }
>>
>> Ideally, we would like the compilation to fail and tell the user the
>> ‘mutex’ variable can not be found. Any clever C++ trick to do that? We’ve
>> tried declaring the move constructors of OELock to be private, but it still
>> compiles (maybe that’s SFINAE?).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
>>
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