Can we pass nontype parameters to templates?

轉載自http://quiz.geeksforgeeks.org/templates-cpp/

We can pass non-type arguments to templates. Non-type parameters are mainly used for specifying max or min values or any other constant value for a particular instance of template. The important thing to note about non-type parameters is, they must be const. Compiler must know the value of non-type parameters at compile time. Because compiler needs to create functions/classes for a specified non-type value at compile time. In below program, if we replace 10000 or 25 with a variable, we get compiler error. Please see this.

Below is a C++ program.

// A C++ program to demonstrate working of non-type
// parameters to templates in C++.
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
  
template <class T, int max>
int arrMin(T arr[], int n)
{
   int m = max;
   for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
      if (arr[i] < m)
         m = arr[i];
  
   return m;
}
  
int main()
{
   int arr1[]  = {10, 20, 15, 12};
   int n1 = sizeof(arr1)/sizeof(arr1[0]);
  
   char arr2[] = {1, 2, 3};
   int n2 = sizeof(arr2)/sizeof(arr2[0]);
  
   // Second template parameter to arrMin must be a constant
   cout << arrMin<int, 10000>(arr1, n1) << endl;
   cout << arrMin<char, 256>(arr2, n2);
   return 0;
}



Output:
10
1