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RCF - Interprocess Communication for C++

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25 Oct 2011CPOL20 min read 4.6M   8.4K   331  
A server/client IPC framework, using the C++ preprocessor as an IDL compiler.
//*****************************************************************************
// Copyright (c) 2003. All rights reserved.
// Developed by Jarl Lindrud.
// Contact: jlindrud@hotmail.com .
//*****************************************************************************

#ifndef INCLUDE_UTIL_META_HPP
#define INCLUDE_UTIL_META_HPP

namespace Meta {

    // Null
    struct Null {};
    
    struct True { enum { Val=true }; char a[1]; };
    struct False { enum { Val=false }; char a[2]; };

    // Boolean operations
    template<bool Cond>
    struct Bool;

    template<>
    struct Bool<true> { typedef True Val; };

    template<>
    struct Bool<false> { typedef False Val; };

    // Integers
    template<int N>
    struct Int { 
        enum { Val = N }; 
    };

    // Select - type selection based on a Bool condition
    template <typename Cond, typename A, typename B>
    struct Select;

    template <typename A, typename B>
    struct Select<True, A, B> { typedef A Val; };

    template <typename A, typename B>
    struct Select<False, A, B> { typedef B Val; };

} // namespace Meta

#endif // ! INCLUDE_UTIL_META_HPP

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Software developer, from Sweden and now living in Canberra, Australia, working on distributed C++ applications. When he is not programming, Jarl enjoys skiing and playing table tennis. He derives immense satisfaction from referring to himself in third person.

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