Question

I would like to know if I can compare 2 member functions with the “<” operator. I can do “==” but I can’t use it in the case below. I tried casting them to void* but that won’t work either.

template <class Receiver, class Sender>
class CallBack2 : public ICallBack2 {

protected:

    Receiver* receiver;
    void(Receiver::*function)(Sender*);
    Sender* sender;

public:

    CallBack2(Receiver* _receiver, void(Receiver::*_function)(Sender*), Sender* _sender) : receiver(_receiver), function(_function), sender(_sender) {};
    virtual ~CallBack2() {};

    virtual void callBack() {
        (receiver->*function)(sender);
    }

    virtual bool operator<(const ICallBack2* _other) const {
        CallBack2<Receiver, Sender>* other = (CallBack2<Receiver, Sender>*)_other;
        if (receiver < other->receiver) {
            return true;
        } else if (receiver == other->receiver && function < other->function) {
            return true; // this line gives the error
        }
        return false;
    }
};

Any ideas please?

Answer 1

If you just want to arbitrarily order them to be keys in a set/map, then you can reinterpret_cast them. You may need a template class like exact_int<sizeof(void (Foo::*bar)())>::type because pointers to member functions can have funny sizes.