C++ lambda with captures as a function pointer

Question

I was playing with C++ lambdas and their implicit conversion to function pointers. My starting example was using them as callback for the ftw function. This works as expecte

Answer 1

Hehe - quite an old question, but still...

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <functional>

using namespace std;

// We dont try to outsmart the compiler...
template<typename T>
int ftw(const char *fpath, T callback) {
  return callback(fpath);
}

int main()
{
  vector<string> entries;

  // ... now the @ftw can accept lambda
  int ret = ftw("/etc", [&](const char *fpath) -> int {
    entries.push_back(fpath);
    return 0;
  });

  // ... and function object too 
  struct _ {
    static int lambda(vector<string>& entries, const char* fpath) {
      entries.push_back(fpath);
      return 0;
    }
  };
  ret = ftw("/tmp", bind(_::lambda, ref(entries), placeholders::_1));

  for (auto entry : entries ) {
    cout << entry << endl;
  }

  return ret;
}

Answer 2

Using locally global (static) method it can be done as followed

template <class F>
auto cify_no_args(F&& f) {
  static F fn = std::forward<F>(f);
  return [] {
    return fn();
  };
}

Suppose we have

void some_c_func(void (*callback)());

So the usage will be

some_c_func(cify_no_args([&] {
  // code
}));

This works because each lambda has an unique signature so making it static is not a problem. Following is a generic wrapper with variadic number of arguments and any return type using the same method.

template <class F>
struct lambda_traits : lambda_traits<decltype(&F::operator())>
{ };

template <typename F, typename R, typename... Args>
struct lambda_traits<R(F::*)(Args...)> : lambda_traits<R(F::*)(Args...) const>
{ };

template <class F, class R, class... Args>
struct lambda_traits<R(F::*)(Args...) const> {
    using pointer = typename std::add_pointer<R(Args...)>::type;

    static pointer cify(F&& f) {
        static F fn = std::forward<F>(f);
        return [](Args... args) {
            return fn(std::forward<Args>(args)...);
        };
    }
};

template <class F>
inline lambda_traits<F>::pointer cify(F&& f) {
    return lambda_traits<F>::cify(std::forward<F>(f));
}

And similar usage

void some_c_func(int (*callback)(some_struct*, float));

some_c_func(cify([&](some_struct* s, float f) {
    // making use of "s" and "f"
    return 0;
}));