libcruft-util/types.hpp

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#ifndef __UTIL_TYPES_HPP
#define __UTIL_TYPES_HPP

#include <cstdint>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <memory>
#include <stdexcept>

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// Returns the number of elements of a statically allocated array
template <typename T, size_t N> 
constexpr size_t elems(const T (&)[N])
    { return N; }


//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
template <class T>
T
first (T a) {
    if (a)
        return a;

    throw std::logic_error ("no valid object");
}

template <class T, class ...Args>
T
first (T a, Args&& ...b) {
    if (a)
        return a;

    return first (std::forward<Args>(b)...);
}


namespace util {
    ///------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// represents a type as a POD struct (but is statically recoverable via
    /// the 'type' member).
    template <typename T>
    struct type_tag
    {
        typedef T type;
    };
}

#endif