Function formatValue

src/tinyformat.h:329–359

/// conversions.
template<typename T>
inline void formatValue(std::ostream& out, const char* /*fmtBegin*/,
                        const char* fmtEnd, int ntrunc, const T& value)
{
#ifndef TINYFORMAT_ALLOW_WCHAR_STRINGS
    // Since we don't support printing of wchar_t using "%ls", make it fail at
    // compile time in preference to printing as a void* at runtime.
    typedef typename detail::is_wchar<T>::tinyformat_wchar_is_not_supported DummyType;
    (void) DummyType(); // avoid unused type warning with gcc-4.8
#endif
    // The mess here is to support the %c and %p conversions: if these
    // conversions are active we try to convert the type to a char or const
    // void* respectively and format that instead of the value itself.  For the
    // %p conversion it's important to avoid dereferencing the pointer, which
    // could otherwise lead to a crash when printing a dangling (const char*).
    const bool canConvertToChar = detail::is_convertible<T,char>::value;
    const bool canConvertToVoidPtr = detail::is_convertible<T, const void*>::value;
    if (canConvertToChar && *(fmtEnd-1) == 'c')
        detail::formatValueAsType<T, char>::invoke(out, value);
    else if (canConvertToVoidPtr && *(fmtEnd-1) == 'p')
        detail::formatValueAsType<T, const void*>::invoke(out, value);
#ifdef TINYFORMAT_OLD_LIBSTDCPLUSPLUS_WORKAROUND
    else if (detail::formatZeroIntegerWorkaround<T>::invoke(out, value)) /**/;
#endif
    else if (ntrunc >= 0) {
        // Take care not to overread C strings in truncating conversions like
        // "%.4s" where at most 4 characters may be read.
        detail::formatTruncated(out, value, ntrunc);
    }
    else
        out << value;
}


// Overloaded version for char types to support printing as an integer