Curiously Recursive Template Pattern in GCC 3.4 (MoSync to be exact) - c++

I'm currently trying to write an Artemis like game component/entity system in C++. I was planning on getting this system to work with a cross platform tool for writing applications on Android and iOS called MoSync.
Unfortunately MoSync currently uses an old version of GCC and when porting the library that I had been testing in Visual Studio, I got a whole bunch of errors. Most of these I could solve, but there is one bug with templates that I can't get my head around.
I wrote a small example
template <typename T>
struct Base
{
static int type;
};
struct Derived : public Base<Derived>
{
};
template <typename T>
int Base<T>::type(-1);
extern "C" int MAMain()
{
Derived d;
d.type = 0;
}
My library uses the Curiously Recursive Template Pattern for defining Components. This example compiles fine in GCC 4.4 and Visual Studio 2010. However when I try to compile this in MoSync (which uses GCC 3.4.6) I get this linker error
C:\MoSync\workspace\pede\main.cpp: Error: Unresolved symbol '__ZN4BaseI7DerivedE4typeE',
Is there a workaround to get this to work in this compiler, or will I have to find another way to define my Components?
Edit*
In fact I can make this error occur with an even simpler example:
template <typename T>
struct Component {
static int t;
};
template <typename T>
int Component<T>::t(-1);
extern "C" int MAMain()
{
Component<int>::t = 0;
}
Gives this error
C:\MoSync\workspace\Components\main.cpp:9: Error: Unresolved symbol '__ZN9ComponentIiE1tE',
I guess this might not have anything to do with the Curiously Recursive Template Pattern at all. What can I do to get this to compile under GCC 3.4.6?

According to this bug report on the gcc bugtracker, the problem is caused by specifying a default value in the static variable definition. The code should link if you remove the initialisation as so:
int Base<T>::type;
The bug report seems to have been resolved as not a bug. Despite this, your samples compile fine in GCC 4.4.
To work around this, you can use a class type with a constructor that will automatically initialise itself.

Does adding
int Base<Derived>::type(-1);
helps ?
gcc 3.4 is really starting to be old and don't coep well with template sorcery.

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function template won't compile in VS2019 express

I have a project with quite a lot of function templates that I wrote back in Visual Studio 2017, and it always worked fine. Now I have to build it in VS2019, because I need to include the lib in another project that is written in VS2019, and the thing won't build.
There is one function template it seems to take issue with, although it doesn't actually complain about the function itself. The compiler just says "identifier not found" when I invoke it in the code. The thing is there in the namespace, however, even InteliSense sees it and links to it without complaining. Just the compiler won't.
Here's the code in question:
// declaration
namespace Oparse
{
// lots of other functions, many of them templates
template <typename T> OpModel<T> *_ModelPtr(T *receiver) { return new OpModel<T>(receiver); };
}
// Invocation
namespace Oparse
{
template <class T, class U>
class OpModelFactory
: public OpNestable
{
public:
OpModelFactory<T, U>(vector<U*> &receiver) : OpNestable(OP_MODELFACTORY), receiver(receiver) {};
// other stuff
void Serialize(string key, stringstream &stream, unsigned int indents)
{
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < receiver.size(); ++i)
{
// check if the instances are really of the type of this OpModel, otherwise there may be duplicates between polymorphic factories populating the same receiver.
T *currentModel = dynamic_cast<T*>(receiver[i]);
if (currentModel != NULL)
{
OpModel<T> *parser = _ModelPtr<T>(currentModel); // <-- identifier not found
parser->Serialize(key, stream, indents);
delete parser;
}
}
};
private:
vector<U*> &receiver;
}
}
If I comment that invocation, the project builds, despite there being a whole lot more function templates declared right where this one is. I have no clue what to do to make the linker find it. Are there any Visual Studio wizzards who could give me a hint? I must honestly confess that I haven't used the IDE in years, and it's my first time in Visual Studio 2019...
Here's the complete output of the error. There's a second message to it, but I found it perfectly unhelpful:
1>D:\Orbiter_installs\Orbiter2016\Orbitersdk\Oparse\include\OpModel.h(138,27): error C3861: '_ModelPtr': identifier not found
1>D:\Orbiter_installs\Orbiter2016\Orbitersdk\Oparse\include\OpModel.h(152): message : see reference to class template instantiation 'Oparse::OpModelFactory<T,U>' being compiled
And no, there's not further message attached. I have seen similar messages that usually go on with "with ... $further information", but this is all I get.
There is a circular dependency problem.
In Oparse.h, you first include OpModel.h that requires_ModelPtr in implementation of Serialize , but_ModelPtr is only defined later in the header.
You need to forward declare the template method.
In OpModel.h, write this instead:
namespace Oparse
{
template<typename T> class OpModel;
template <typename T> OpModel<T>* _ModelPtr(T* receiver);
// Remaining of OpModel.h...
typedef map<string, pair<Oparse::OpValue*, vector<Oparse::OpValidator*>>> OpModelDef;
typedef vector<pair<Oparse::OpValue*, vector<Oparse::OpValidator*>>> OpValues;
...

VS 2015 Update 3 Internal compiler Error when curiously recursive template pattern with name hiding is used

Here is a small,standalone use case that I am trying to compile using VS2015 Update 3 compiler.
template <typename Derived, typename SomeType> class BaseClass
{
public:
void NameHidingMethod(SomeType const & node)
{
// Do Something
}
};
namespace structured {
typedef struct _Structure
{
} Structure;
template <typename Derived>
using BaseClass = BaseClass<Derived, Structure>;
}
class DerivedClass : public structured::BaseClass<DerivedClass>
{
public:
using structured::BaseClass<DerivedClass>::NameHidingMethod; // Generates error
};
int main() {
return 0;
}
This works fine on VS 2013 but fails VS 2015 Update 3. Here is the error message that I get.
fatal error C1001: An internal error has occurred in the compiler.
(compiler file 'f:\dd\vctools\compiler\cxxfe\sl\p1\c\symbols.c', line 5786)
To work around this problem, try simplifying or changing the program near the locations listed above.
Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++
Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more information
Is my code legit ? If yes, then what could be a possible workaround ?

CUDA linker error with template class

Using CUDA 5.0 on ubuntu with gcc/g++ 4.6, I'm getting errors when linking against CUDA code with templates.
cu_array.cu:
#include "cu_array.hpp"
template<class T>
CuArray<T>::CuArray(unsigned int n) {
cudaMalloc(&data,n*sizeof(T));
}
cu_array.hpp:
#pragma once
template<class T>
class CuArray {
public:
CuArray(unsigned int n);
private:
T* data;
};
main.cu:
#include "cu_array.hpp"
int main() {
CuArray<float> a(10);
}
These compile fine with nvcc -c, but linking with nvcc cu_array.o main.o gives undefined reference to CuArray<float>::CuArray(unsigned int). If I move the contents of cu_array.cu into the header and only build the main, it uses the templates just fine. Or if I remove the templates altogether, the code naturally links fine.
I'm sure there's a simple answer for this. Any ideas?
You haven't instantiated the class in the compilation unit where it is defined, so the compiler doesn't emit any code for the class member function, and linkage fails. This isn't specific to CUDA, this greedy style of instantiation is the compilation/linkage model g++ uses, and lots of people get caught out by it.
As you have found already, the simplest solution is to include everything into the same compilation unit, and the problem disappears.
Otherwise if you explicitly instantiate CuArray::CuArray at the bottom of cu_array.cu like this:
template CuArray<float>::CuArray(unsigned int);
the compiler will emit code where it would otherwise not, and the linkage problem will be fixed. You will need to instantiate every class function for every type you want to use elsewhere in the code to make this approach work.

Checking if a function has C-linkage at compile-time [unsolvable]

Is there any way to check if a given function is declared with C-linkage (that is, with extern "C") at compile-time?
I am developing a plugin system. Each plugin can supply factory functions to the plugin-loading code. However, this has to be done via name (and subsequent use of GetProcAddress or dlsym). This requires that the functions be declared with C-linkage so as to prevent name-mangling. It would be nice to be able to throw a compiler error if the referred-to function is declared with C++-linkage (as opposed to finding out at runtime when a function with that name does not exist).
Here's a simplified example of what I mean:
extern "C" void my_func()
{
}
void my_other_func()
{
}
// Replace this struct with one that actually works
template<typename T>
struct is_c_linkage
{
static const bool value = true;
};
template<typename T>
void assertCLinkage(T *func)
{
static_assert(is_c_linkage<T>::value, "Supplied function does not have C-linkage");
}
int main()
{
assertCLinkage(my_func); // Should compile
assertCLinkage(my_other_func); // Should NOT compile
}
Is there a possible implementation of is_c_linkage that would throw a compiler error for the second function, but not the first? I'm not sure that it's possible (though it may exist as a compiler extension, which I'd still like to know of). Thanks.
I agree with Jonathan Leffler that this probably is not possible in a standard way. Maybe it would be possible somewhat, depending on the compiler and even version of the compiler, but you would have to experiment to determine possible approaches and accept the fact that the compiler's behavior was likely unintentional and might be "fixed" in later versions.
With g++ version 4.4.4 on Debian Squeeze, for example, you might be able to raise a compiler error for functions that are not stdcall with this approach:
void my_func() __attribute__((stdcall));
void my_func() { }
void my_other_func() { }
template <typename ret_, typename... args_>
struct stdcall_fun_t
{
typedef ret_ (*type)(args_...) __attribute__((stdcall));
};
int main()
{
stdcall_fun_t<void>::type pFn(&my_func),
pFn2(&my_other_func);
}
g++ -std=c++0x fails to compile this code because:
SO2936360.cpp:17: error: invalid conversion from ‘void ()()’ to ‘void ()()’
Line 17 is the declaration of pFn2. If I get rid of this declaration, then compilation succeeds.
Unfortunately, this technique does not work with cdecl.
For Unix/Linux, how about analyzing the resulting binary with 'nm' and looking for symbol names? I suppose it's not what you meant, but still it's sort of compile time.

structure in template class

sample code is as follow:
struct TEMP
{
int j;
TEMP()
{
j = 0;
}
};
template<typename T>
class classA
{
struct strA
{
long i;
strA():i(0) {}
};
static strA obj_str;
classA();
};
template<typename T>
classA<T>::classA()
{}
template<typename T>
classA<TEMP>::strA classA<TEMP>::obj_str;
int main()
{
return 0;
}
while compiling this code, I am getting following error:
test1.cpp:32: internal compiler error: in import_export_decl, at cp/decl2.c:1970
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> for instructions.
Preprocessed source stored into /tmp/ccUGE0GW.out file, please attach this to your bugreport.
I am building this code at x86_64-redhat-linux machine, and gcc version is gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)
Please note this code was already built with gcc version 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2) at i386-redhat-linux machine.
Any idea why this is not able to build with gcc 4.1.2.
Thanks in advance.
In any case, your code doesn't make much sense in the following declaration.
template<typename T>
classA<TEMP>::strA classA<TEMP>::obj_str;
Because the T parameter is used nowhere in the declaration. I think you either wanted to write one of the following things:
// definition of static member of template
template<typename T>
typename classA<T>::strA classA<T>::obj_str;
// ... or declaration of static member specialization for `T=TEMP` of template
template<>
classA<TEMP>::strA classA<TEMP>::obj_str;
I suspect it was the first one. For the compiler crash - that surely shouldn't happen in any case :)
Edit: The bug has already been fixed in 4.4.1 at least - i think there is no need for reporting anymore.
I would follow the error report.