22 General utilities library [utilities]

22.14 Formatting [format]

22.14.8 Arguments [format.arguments]

22.14.8.1 Class template basic_format_arg [format.arg]

namespace std { template<class Context> class basic_format_arg { public: class handle; private: using char_type = typename Context::char_type; // exposition only variant<monostate, bool, char_type, int, unsigned int, long long int, unsigned long long int, float, double, long double, const char_type*, basic_string_view<char_type>, const void*, handle> value; // exposition only template<class T> explicit basic_format_arg(T& v) noexcept; // exposition only public: basic_format_arg() noexcept; explicit operator bool() const noexcept; }; }

An instance of basic_format_arg provides access to a formatting argument for user-defined formatters.

The behavior of a program that adds specializations of basic_format_arg is undefined.

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basic_format_arg() noexcept;

Postconditions: !(*this).

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template<class T> explicit basic_format_arg(T& v) noexcept;

Constraints: T satisfies formattable-with<Context>.

Preconditions: If decay_t<T> is char_type* or const char_type*, static_cast<const char_
type*>(v) points to a NTCTS ([defns.ntcts]).

Effects: Let TD be remove_const_t<T>.

(6.1)
If TD is bool or char_type, initializes value with v;
(6.2)
otherwise, if TD is char and char_type is wchar_t, initializes value with static_cast<wchar_t>(v);
(6.3)
otherwise, if TD is a signed integer type ([basic.fundamental]) and sizeof(TD) <= sizeof(int), initializes value with static_cast<int>(v);
(6.4)
otherwise, if TD is an unsigned integer type and sizeof(TD) <= sizeof(unsigned int), initializes value with static_cast<unsigned int>(v);
(6.5)
otherwise, if TD is a signed integer type and sizeof(TD) <= sizeof(long long int), initializes value with static_cast<long long int>(v);
(6.6)
otherwise, if TD is an unsigned integer type and sizeof(TD) <= sizeof(unsigned long long int), initializes value with static_cast<unsigned long long int>(v);
(6.7)
otherwise, if TD is a standard floating-point type, initializes value with v;
(6.8)
otherwise, if TD is a specialization of basic_string_view or basic_string and TD::value_type is char_type, initializes value with basic_string_view<char_type>(v.data(), v.size());
(6.9)
otherwise, if decay_t<TD> is char_type* or const char_type*, initializes value with static_cast<const char_type*>(v);
(6.10)
otherwise, if is_void_v<remove_pointer_t<TD>> is true or is_null_pointer_v<TD> is true, initializes value with static_cast<const void*>(v);
(6.11)
otherwise, initializes value with handle(v).

[Note 1:

Constructing basic_format_arg from a pointer to a member is ill-formed unless the user provides an enabled specialization of formatter for that pointer to member type.

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explicit operator bool() const noexcept;

Returns: !holds_alternative<monostate>(value).

The class handle allows formatting an object of a user-defined type.

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namespace std { template<class Context> class basic_format_arg<Context>::handle { const void* ptr_; // exposition only void (*format_)(basic_format_parse_context<char_type>&, Context&, const void*); // exposition only template<class T> explicit handle(T& val) noexcept; // exposition only friend class basic_format_arg<Context>; // exposition only public: void format(basic_format_parse_context<char_type>&, Context& ctx) const; }; }

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template<class T> explicit handle(T& val) noexcept;

Let

(9.1)
TD be remove_const_t<T>,
(9.2)
TQ be const TD if const TD satisfies formattable-with<Context> and TD otherwise.

Mandates: TQ satisfies formattable-with<Context>.

Effects: Initializes ptr_ with addressof(val) and format_ with [](basic_format_parse_context<char_type>& parse_ctx, Context& format_ctx, const void* ptr) { typename Context::template formatter_type<TD> f; parse_ctx.advance_to(f.parse(parse_ctx)); format_ctx.advance_to(f.format(*const_cast<TQ*>(static_cast<const TD*>(ptr)), format_ctx)); }

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void format(basic_format_parse_context<char_type>& parse_ctx, Context& format_ctx) const;

Effects: Equivalent to: format_(parse_ctx, format_ctx, ptr_);

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template<class Visitor, class Context>
  decltype(auto) visit_format_arg(Visitor&& vis, basic_format_arg<Context> arg);

Effects: Equivalent to: return visit(std::forward<Visitor>(vis), arg.value);