Call of overloaded ambiguous template

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Submit and view feedback for This product This page. Both are valid conversions. This confusion causes an error message to be displayed and prevents the program from compiling. Note: According to the C language specification, any integer type shorter than int, for example, bool, char, short are implicitly converted to int.

A char fits into an int without overflowing or losing precision, which explains the first code. How to resolve ambiguity: There are two ways to resolve this ambiguity: Typecast char to float. Remove either one of the ambiguity generating functions float or double and add overloaded function with an int type parameter. In this ambiguity, the variable of a float type is implicitly converted to double type and if there is no overloaded function of float or double type and the function is called with a float value then the program will throw an error.

Note: The float is converted to double under the following situations: The float is an argument to a function call, corresponding to a parameter type double in a function prototype.

A binary operator has double and float as two argument types. A conditional operator has double and float as a second and third operand.

The float value is cast to double. The float value is assigned to double. How to resolve ambiguity: There are two ways to resolve the ambiguity- Typecast float to int.

Remove either one of the ambiguity generating functions int or long and add overloaded function with a double type parameter. Skip to content. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Call of overloaded template function is ambiguous Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 9 months ago. Active 8 years, 5 months ago.

Viewed 3k times. I have the following code. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Thank you. This makes sense. Kyle Lutz Kyle Lutz 7, 2 2 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. How would I get it to work with my defined function max since it works with the other types?