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[/ Copyright 2005-2008 Daniel James.
/ Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
/ file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) ]
[section:portability Portability]
[def __boost_hash__ [classref boost::hash]]
__boost_hash__ is written to be as portable as possible, but unfortunately, several
older compilers don't support argument dependent lookup (ADL) - the mechanism
used for customisation. On those compilers custom overloads for `hash_value`
needs to be declared in the boost namespace.
On a strictly standards compliant compiler, an overload defined in the
boost namespace won't be found when __boost_hash__ is instantiated,
so for these compilers the overload should only be declared in the same
namespace as the class.
Let's say we have a simple custom type:
namespace foo
{
template <class T>
class custom_type
{
T value;
public:
custom_type(T x) : value(x) {}
friend std::size_t hash_value(custom_type x)
{
__boost_hash__<int> hasher;
return hasher(x.value);
}
};
}
On a compliant compiler, when `hash_value` is called for this type,
it will look at the namespace inside the type and find `hash_value`
but on a compiler which doesn't support ADL `hash_value` won't be found.
To make things worse, some compilers which do support ADL won't find
a friend class defined inside the class.
So first move the member function out of the class:
namespace foo
{
template <class T>
class custom_type
{
T value;
public:
custom_type(T x) : value(x) {}
std::size_t hash(custom_type x)
{
__boost_hash__<T> hasher;
return hasher(value);
}
};
template <class T>
inline std::size_t hash_value(custom_type<T> x)
{
return x.hash();
}
}
Unfortunately, I couldn't declare hash_value as a friend, as some compilers
don't support template friends, so instead I declared a member function to
calculate the hash, and called it from hash_value.
For compilers which don't support ADL, hash_value needs to be defined in the
boost namespace:
#ifdef BOOST_NO_ARGUMENT_DEPENDENT_LOOKUP
namespace boost
#else
namespace foo
#endif
{
template <class T>
std::size_t hash_value(foo::custom_type<T> x)
{
return x.hash();
}
}
Full code for this example is at
[@boost:/libs/functional/hash/examples/portable.cpp /libs/functional/hash/examples/portable.cpp].
[endsect]