从技术上讲,这不是有效的代码。
但是发生了什么:
// Declare four variables
// That are presumably placed in memory one after the other.
float x, y, z;
在代码中:
return (&x)[index];
// Here we take the address of x (thus we have a pointer to float).
// The operator [] when applied to fundamental types is equivalent to
// *(pointer + index)
// So the above code is
return *(&x + index);
// This takes the address of x. Moves index floating point numbers further
// into the address space (which is illegal).
// Then returns a `lvalue referring to the object at that location`
// If this aligns with x/y/z (it is possible but not guaranteed by the standard)
// we have an `lvalue` referring to one of these objects.
使这项工作很容易并且合法:
class Vec3f
{
float data[3];
float& x;
float& y;
float& z;
public:
float& operator[](const int index) {return data[index];}
Vec3f()
: x(data[0])
, y(data[1])
, z(data[2])
{}
Vec3f(Vec3f const& copy)
: x(data[0])
, y(data[1])
, z(data[2])
{
x = copy.x;
y = copy.y;
z = copy.z;
}
Vec3f& operator=(Vec3f const& rhs)
{
x = rhs.x;
y = rhs.y;
z = rhs.z;
return *this;
}
};