How to detect the presence of a static member function with certain signature?

c++, c++11, sfinae, template-meta-programming, templates

Solution

Following may help: (https://ideone.com/nDlFUE)

#include <cstdint>

#define DEFINE_HAS_SIGNATURE(traitsName, funcName, signature)               \
    template <typename U>                                                   \
    class traitsName                                                        \
    {                                                                       \
    private:                                                                \
        template<typename T, T> struct helper;                              \
        template<typename T>                                                \
        static std::uint8_t check(helper<signature, &funcName>*);           \
        template<typename T> static std::uint16_t check(...);               \
    public:                                                                 \
        static                                                              \
        constexpr bool value = sizeof(check<U>(0)) == sizeof(std::uint8_t); \
    }

Then define a traits:

DEFINE_HAS_SIGNATURE(has_foo, T::foo, void (*)(void));

Problem

I found several questions & answers on SO dealing with detecting at compile time (via SFINAE) whether a given class has a member of certain name, type, or signature. However, I couldn't find one that also applies to static public member functions (when pointer-to-member tricks won't work). Any ideas?

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