What is the use of forwarding an rvalue?

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I'm reading the std::forward entry in cppreference.

For the second overload of std::forward, there is an example:

template<class T>
void wrapper(T&& arg)
{
    foo(forward<decltype(forward<T>(arg).get())>(forward<T>(arg).get()));
}

where the type of arg may be

struct Arg
{
    int i = 1;
    int  get() && { return i; } // call to this overload is rvalue
    int& get() &  { return i; } // call to this overload is lvalue
};

But whether forward<T>(arg).get() is lvalue or rvalue can be distinguished without the use of std::forward (If the argument of wrapper referring to arg is lvalue, forward<T>(arg).get() is lvalue; otherwise it is rvalue). The following program is a support:

#include <iostream>
#include <utility>

struct Arg
{
    int i = 1;
    int  get() && { return i; } // call to this overload is rvalue
    int& get() &  { return i; } // call to this overload is lvalue
};

void foo(int&)  {std::cout << "lvalue\n";}
void foo(int&&) {std::cout << "rvalue\n";}

template<class T>
void wrapper(T&& arg)
{
    foo(std::forward<T>(arg).get()); // without the use of outer forward
}

int main()
{
    Arg arg;
    wrapper(arg);
    wrapper(static_cast<Arg&&>(arg));
}

Running Result

So what is the use of the outer std::forward?

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