What does the 'void()' in 'auto f(params) -> decltype(…, void())' do?

Question

I found code here that looked something like this:

auto f(T& t, size_t n) -> decltype(t.reserve(n), void()) { .. }

In all the docume

Answer 1

Since it is an expression that comma is simply the comma operator (meaning the type is the type of the rhs side: void), not another argument.

That code is using SFINAE - it's enabled if t.reserve(n) exists but it wants to keep the return type as void.