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authorStephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>2018-05-17 11:28:56 +0200
committerStephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>2018-05-17 21:03:12 +0200
commit649313625b94e6b879848fc19b607b74375100bf (patch)
treedaa8993fe967cbfdad18aabac1635f7ded1977c2 /include/o3tl
parent3a667101987ccbc75024942d779c8c62a4d0a296 (diff)
New o3tl::temporary to simplify calls of std::modf
...that ignore the out-parameter integral part Change-Id: I05f07c1a8909023232f8aecf75ea5541d4eb81ca Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/54474 Reviewed-by: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com> Tested-by: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4; fill-column: 100 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ */
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+namespace o3tl
+{
+// Cast an rvalue to an lvalue. Can be useful if a function parameter is a pointer/reference to T,
+// and some call site doesn't need the value beyond the call itself (e.g., in a call like
+// std::modf(x, &o3tl::temporary(double())) to obtain the fractional part of x, ignoring the
+// integral part).
+template <typename T> constexpr T& temporary(T&& x) { return x; }
+template <typename T> constexpr T& temporary(T&) = delete;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab cinoptions=b1,g0,N-s cinkeys+=0=break: */