passing pointer to member object as template argument

[autumn]

Hi everybody,

I'm having problem passing pointer to member object as template argument, seems VC 2005 does not allow 'pointer to base member' to 'pointer to derived member' conversion in template arguments, is this VC specific or a standard c++ behavior?
the code looks like this:

class Base {
public:
int member;
};

class Derived : public Base {};

template <class T,int T::*P> class Tmpl {};

main() {
Tmpl<Derived,&Derived::member> t;
}

I get:
error C2440: 'specialization' : cannot convert from 'int Base::* ' to 'int Derived::* '
Standard conversion from pointer-to-member of base to pointer-to-member of derived is not applied for template arguments.

even this doesn't help:
Tmpl<Derived,(int Derived::*)&Derived::member> t;
gives:
error C2975: 'P' : invalid template argument for 'Tmpl', expected compile-time constant expression

only reinterpret cast works:
Tmpl<Derived,reinterpret_cast<int Derived::*>(&Derived::member)> t;
which I'm not sure if it's safe or not.

can anybody help me with this issue?

thanks in advance

[Bumbosiepsak]

Just have a look here:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg...ctive.html#203
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg...losed.html#247