Is there a way to define a variadic number of arguments of the same type?

Question

I can\'t figure out how to implement a function with a variable number of arguments of the same type.

I\'m writing for a microcontroller with little stack and memory

Answer 1

I can't figure out how to implement a function with a variable number of arguments of the same type.

Template argument of the same type or ordinary function arguments of the same type?

The first case is simple (if the type is one admitted for template value types), exactly as you have written

template
fun (int arg1, int arg2);

and you can use they using template folding, if you can use C++17,

template 
auto fun (int arg1, int arg2)
 { ((s->r1 += 7 * args), ...); }

or in a little more complicated way before (C++11/C++14)

template 
auto fun (int arg1, int arg2)
 { 
   using unused = int[];

   (void)unused { 0, s->r1 += 7 * args ... };
 }

Unfortunately you can call this type of function with compile time known integers so, by example, not with variables

int a = 7;
fun<&s,1,2,a,4>(mode,speed); // compilation error

In this case you need a variadic list of ordinary function arguments of the same type; unfortunately this is a little more complicated.

You can create a typical variadic list of template parameter

template 
auto fun (Args ... args)

imposing, through SFINAE, that all Args... are deduced or explicated as int (see Michael Kenzel's answer).

Unfortunately this require that every argument is exactly if type int so calling func with (by example) a long int gives a compilation error

fun(1, 2, 3l); // compilation error (3l is a long int, not an int)

Obviously you can relax the SFINAE condition imposing (by example) that all Args... types are convertible (std::is_convertible) to int but isn't exactly has developing a function receiving a variadic number of arguments of the same type.

If you can accept a superior limit to the number of arguments (64, in the following example) and that the function is method (maybe static) of a class, you can create a foo class containing a method f() that receive zero int, one f() that receive one int, one f() that receive two ints, etc, until an f() that receive 63 ints.

The following is a full compiling C++17 example

#include 
#include 

struct S
{
    int r1;
    int r2;
};

S s;
const int mode=3, speed=1;

template 
using getType = T;

template >
struct bar;

template 
struct bar>
 {
   static constexpr auto f (getType ... args)
    { ((s.r1 += 7 * args), ...); }
 };

template >
struct foo;

template 
struct foo> : public bar...
 { using bar::f...; };

int main ()
 {
   foo::f(mode, speed);
 }

In C++14 is a little more complicated because there isn't variadic using so you have to write the foo class in a recursive way.

In C++11 you have also to develop a substitute for std::make_index_sequence/std::index_sequence.