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Boost C++ Application Development  Cookbook

You're reading from   Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook Recipes to simplify your application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282247
Length 438 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Anton Polukhin Alekseevic Anton Polukhin Alekseevic
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting to Write Your Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Resources 3. Converting and Casting 4. Compile-Time Tricks 5. Multithreading 6. Manipulating Tasks 7. Manipulating Strings 8. Metaprogramming 9. Containers 10. Gathering Platform and Compiler Information 11. Working with the System 12. Scratching the Tip of the Iceberg

Passing function pointer in a variable

We are continuing with the previous example, and now we want to pass a pointer to a function in our process_integers() method. Shall we add an overload for just function pointers, or is there a more elegant way?

Getting ready

This recipe is continuing the previous one. You must read the previous recipe first.

How to do it...

Nothing needs to be done as boost::function<> is also constructible from the function pointers:

void my_ints_function(int i); 

int main() {
process_integers(&my_ints_function);
}
...
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