Thanks guys for all your kind heartedness. Yeah, I got messed up with a lot of things in my previous program, like missing the definition of one function and etc. I finally discovered a good example on: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/Current/swig-4/swig/Examples/java/funcptr/index.html. And I was able to make a workable example as following:
/* test.i */ %module test %{ #include "test.h" %} %include "test.h" %constant B (*F)( const A&)=f; //let a=A(), b=B() %template(ia) ex1<A>; // from Doc, works %template(jab) ex2<A, B>; // jab(a,b) works %template(kab) ex3<A, B>; // kab(a,b,1) works %template(lab) ex4<A, B>; // lab(a,b,1,F) works %template(fab) ex5<A, B>; // fab(a,b,1,F) ultimate goal /* test.h */ #include<iostream> using namespace std; class A { }; class B { }; class E { }; B f( const A& ) { cout<<"This is a function map A to B"<<endl; return *(new B); }; typedef B (*fp)( const A& ); template<class T> E ex1(T a, T b) { cout<<"ex1, one parameter template"<<endl; return *(new E); } // NOTE: simple template function template<class T, class S> E ex2(T t, S s) { cout<<"ex2, two parameters template"<<endl; return *(new E); } // NOTE: this extends the one above with two template parameters template<class T, class S> E ex3(T t, S s, int k) { cout<<"ex3, two parameters template plus an int argument"<<endl; return *(new E); } // NOTE: this extends the one above with additional integer argument template<class T, class S> E ex4(T t, S s, int k, fp gp) { cout<<"ex4, two parameters template, an int argument and an func ptr argument"<<endl; A a=A(); B b=gp(a); return *(new E); } // NOTE: this extends the one above with one more function poiter argument template <class C, class D> E ex5(C c, D& d, int n, D (*g)(const C&)) { cout<<"ex5, two parameters template, an int argument and a template func ptr argument"<<endl; g(c); return *(new E); } // NOTE: this temaplate function TF takes a template function poiter as argument, our ultimate goal And currently I got my program work now. But the ex. in 5.4.9 still seems not working. Anyway, so far good for me now. Maybe one last thing, currently I need to put the definition and declaration of a template function all in one file, otherwise I got undefined symbol error. How can I separate them into a .h and .cpp file? The 'export' keyword which suggested in TCPL seems do't work with gcc. Any comments? Thanks a bunch already! Charlie [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel