replacing OUString::valueOf(static_cast<sal_Int32>) ??

[Lubos Lunak]

On Monday 14 of January 2013, Noel Grandin wrote:
> OK, so I tried modifying my patch so that we have
>    number(sal_Int64)
>    number(float)
>    number(double)
>
> At which point my unit tests fail when passing a 32-bit value in because
> the compiler does not
> know which overload to use - this is on 64-bit Ubuntu using gcc 4.7.2
>
> I can't add a sal_Int32 variant because I suspect that will make the
> original problem come back, which was where
> we started, with all the "static_cast<sal_Int32>" stuff.
>
> Any ideas?

 You need to add overloads, for anything except signed/unsigned char/short:

On Friday 11 of January 2013, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  So, based on this, the best solution to the problem that I can see is
> creating fromNumber() or number() , overloaded for all signed/unsigned
> int/long/long long types and all floats because of the lame language
> ambiguity. The original valueOf() can be wrapped inside #ifndef
> LIBO_INTERNAL_ONLY after LO is moved away from this problematic function to
> keep it only for external backwards compatibility, while LO itself will no
> longer "have" it. So rather than bitting us in small ways every now and
> then, the (possibly smaller in the end, if it wasn't for this discussion)
> effort is spent now, and the effort is not that big (all the duplicates can
> be only 6 lines, 2 for doxygen @overload @since, 4 for code forwarding to
> the overload taking the largest type). 

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