Summary:
This replaces the format member search, which was quite complicated, with a more
direct approach to detecting whether a class should be formatted using the
format-member method. Instead we use a special type llvm::format_adapter, which
every adapter must inherit from. Then the search can be simply implemented with
the is_base_of type trait.
Aside from the simplification, I like this way more because it makes it more
explicit that you are supposed to use this type only for adapter-like
formattings, and the other approach (format_provider overloads) should be used
as a default (a mistake I made when first trying to use this library).
The only slight change in behaviour here is that now choose the format-adapter
branch even if the format member invocation will fail to compile (e.g. because it is a
non-const member function and we are passing a const adapter), whereas
previously we would have gone on to search for format_providers for the type.
However, I think that is actually a good thing, as it probably means the
programmer did something wrong.
Reviewers: zturner, inglorion
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27679
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@289795 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
This introduces a new type-safe general purpose formatting
library. It provides compile-time type safety, does not require
a format specifier (since the type is deduced), and provides
mechanisms for extending the format capability to user defined
types, and overriding the formatting behavior for existing types.
This patch additionally adds documentation for the API to the
LLVM programmer's manual.
Mailing List Thread:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-October/105836.html
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25587
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@286682 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
