IBM有更多关于如何使用它的文档。简单地说，您使用指针作为类的偏移量。你不能在它们所指向的类之外使用这些指针，所以:

  int Car::*pSpeed = &Car::speed;
  Car mycar;
  mycar.*pSpeed = 65;

It seems a little obscure, but one possible application is if you're trying to write code for deserializing generic data into many different object types, and your code needs to handle object types that it knows absolutely nothing about (for example, your code is in a library, and the objects into which you deserialize were created by a user of your library). The member pointers give you a generic, semi-legible way of referring to the individual data member offsets, without having to resort to typeless void * tricks the way you might for C structs.

我认为，只有当成员数据相当大(例如，另一个相当庞大的类的对象)，并且您有一些外部例程，只对该类的对象引用起作用时，才会想要这样做。你不想复制成员对象，所以这让你可以传递它。

这是我能想到的最简单的例子，它传达了这个特性很少相关的情况:

#include <iostream>

class bowl {
public:
    int apples;
    int oranges;
};

int count_fruit(bowl * begin, bowl * end, int bowl::*fruit)
{
    int count = 0;
    for (bowl * iterator = begin; iterator != end; ++ iterator)
        count += iterator->*fruit;
    return count;
}

int main()
{
    bowl bowls[2] = {
        { 1, 2 },
        { 3, 5 }
    };
    std::cout << "I have " << count_fruit(bowls, bowls + 2, & bowl::apples) << " apples\n";
    std::cout << "I have " << count_fruit(bowls, bowls + 2, & bowl::oranges) << " oranges\n";
    return 0;
}

这里需要注意的是传递给count_fruit的指针。这样就不必单独编写count_apples和count_oranges函数。

我使用它的一种方式是，如果我有两个如何在一个类中做某事的实现，我想在运行时选择一个，而不必连续地通过if语句，即。

class Algorithm
{
public:
    Algorithm() : m_impFn( &Algorithm::implementationA ) {}
    void frequentlyCalled()
    {
        // Avoid if ( using A ) else if ( using B ) type of thing
        (this->*m_impFn)();
    }
private:
    void implementationA() { /*...*/ }
    void implementationB() { /*...*/ }

    typedef void ( Algorithm::*IMP_FN ) ();
    IMP_FN m_impFn;
};

显然，这只有在你觉得代码被敲打到足够的if语句减慢事情完成时才有用。在某个密集算法的深处。我仍然认为它比if语句更优雅，即使在它没有实际用途的情况下，但这只是我的观点。

它使得以统一的方式绑定成员变量和函数成为可能。下面是Car类的示例。更常见的用法是绑定std::pair::first和::second，当在STL算法和Boost上使用时。

#include <list>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <boost/lambda/lambda.hpp>
#include <boost/lambda/bind.hpp>


class Car {
public:
    Car(int s): speed(s) {}
    void drive() {
        std::cout << "Driving at " << speed << " km/h" << std::endl;
    }
    int speed;
};

int main() {

    using namespace std;
    using namespace boost::lambda;

    list<Car> l;
    l.push_back(Car(10));
    l.push_back(Car(140));
    l.push_back(Car(130));
    l.push_back(Car(60));

    // Speeding cars
    list<Car> s;

    // Binding a value to a member variable.
    // Find all cars with speed over 60 km/h.
    remove_copy_if(l.begin(), l.end(),
                   back_inserter(s),
                   bind(&Car::speed, _1) <= 60);

    // Binding a value to a member function.
    // Call a function on each car.
    for_each(s.begin(), s.end(), bind(&Car::drive, _1));

    return 0;
}

一个指向成员的指针的真实例子可以是std::shared_ptr的更窄的混叠构造函数:

template <typename T>
template <typename U>
shared_ptr<T>::shared_ptr(const shared_ptr<U>, T U::*member);

构造函数有什么用

假设你有一个结构体foo:

struct foo {
    int ival;
    float fval;
};

如果你给了一个foo对象一个shared_ptr对象，你可以使用构造函数将shared_ptr对象检索到它的成员ival或fval:

auto foo_shared = std::make_shared<foo>();
auto ival_shared = std::shared_ptr<int>(foo_shared, &foo::ival);

如果想将指针foo_shared->ival传递给某个需要shared_ptr的函数，这将非常有用

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/shared_ptr/shared_ptr