Re: [boost] Function Adapting

From: Douglas Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-17 14:11:37

On Wednesday 17 October 2001 02:50, you wrote:
> I'm considering writing template C++ wrappers for the gnu GSL
> integration library instead.  The issue there is that these routines
> are plain C.  Assume I don't rewrite them, but just wrap them.  In
> that case, how do I adapt a C++ functor to a plain C function pointer
> that a plain C routine would accept?  Any example?  I tried playing
> with mem_fun but I must be doing something wrong.

I've dealt with this before, and recently wrote a small tutorial to describe 
the use of Boost.Function to generalize callbacks that are based on C 
function pointers. It is available here:

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/generalizing_callbacks.html

I hope it helps.

        Doug