Returning a pointer to a nonstatic member function?

[Clay_Culver@yahoo.com]

I have this code:

typedef BraidedNode* (BraidedNode::* NodeGet)() const;

NodeGet test()
{
return BraidedNode::ge tNextID;
}

This code compiles under MSVC 7.1, but g++ (GCC 3.4.4) will not compile
it. Maybe I'm missing a subtle portion of the standard.... I know
that the above is at least partially correct (MSVC compiles it). Does
anyone know what I need to do to get this to compile?

info:
BraidedNode is a class
getNextID is a non-static member function of BraidedNode
BraidedNode::ge tNextID matches the NodeGet typedef

Anyone have an insights?

[Clay_Culver@yahoo.com]

Re: Returning a pointer to a nonstatic member function?

Sorry, forgot to mention, this is the error message:
Call.cpp: In function `BraidedNode*(B raidedNode::* test())() const':
Call.cpp:7: error: invalid use of non-static member function
`BraidedNode* BraidedNode::ge tNextID() const'
Call.cpp:7: error: invalid use of non-static member function

[Peter Steiner]

Re: Returning a pointer to a nonstatic member function?

to get a pointer to a member function you have to prepend the function
with the address-of (&) operator. only global functions are implicitely
converted to pointers.

try:

NodeGet test()
{
return &BraidedNode::g etNextID;
}

[Clay_Culver@yahoo.com]

Re: Returning a pointer to a nonstatic member function?

That fixed it, thank you.