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  69. <h3 class="section">7.6 Extracting the Function Pointer from a Bound Pointer to Member Function</h3>
  70. <a name="index-pmf"></a>
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  73. <p>In C++, pointer to member functions (PMFs) are implemented using a wide
  74. pointer of sorts to handle all the possible call mechanisms; the PMF
  75. needs to store information about how to adjust the &lsquo;<samp>this</samp>&rsquo; pointer,
  76. and if the function pointed to is virtual, where to find the vtable, and
  77. where in the vtable to look for the member function. If you are using
  78. PMFs in an inner loop, you should really reconsider that decision. If
  79. that is not an option, you can extract the pointer to the function that
  80. would be called for a given object/PMF pair and call it directly inside
  81. the inner loop, to save a bit of time.
  82. </p>
  83. <p>Note that you still pay the penalty for the call through a
  84. function pointer; on most modern architectures, such a call defeats the
  85. branch prediction features of the CPU. This is also true of normal
  86. virtual function calls.
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  88. <p>The syntax for this extension is
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  91. <pre class="smallexample">extern A a;
  92. extern int (A::*fp)();
  93. typedef int (*fptr)(A *);
  94. fptr p = (fptr)(a.*fp);
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  96. <p>For PMF constants (i.e. expressions of the form &lsquo;<samp>&amp;Klasse::Member</samp>&rsquo;),
  97. no object is needed to obtain the address of the function. They can be
  98. converted to function pointers directly:
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  101. <pre class="smallexample">fptr p1 = (fptr)(&amp;A::foo);
  102. </pre></div>
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  104. <p>You must specify <samp>-Wno-pmf-conversions</samp> to use this extension.
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