/* Reference-counted smart pointer class Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GDB. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #ifndef GDB_REF_PTR_H #define GDB_REF_PTR_H #include namespace gdb { /* An instance of this class either holds a reference to a reference-counted object or is "NULL". Reference counting is handled externally by a policy class. If the object holds a reference, then when the object is destroyed, the reference is decref'd. Normally an instance is constructed using a pointer. This sort of initialization lets this class manage the lifetime of that reference. Assignment and copy construction will make a new reference as appropriate. Assignment from a plain pointer is disallowed to avoid confusion about whether this acquires a new reference; instead use the "reset" method -- which, like the pointer constructor, transfers ownership. The policy class must provide two static methods: void incref (T *); void decref (T *); */ template class ref_ptr { public: /* Create a new NULL instance. */ ref_ptr () : m_obj (NULL) { } /* Create a new NULL instance. Note that this is not explicit. */ ref_ptr (const std::nullptr_t) : m_obj (NULL) { } /* Create a new instance. OBJ is a reference, management of which is now transferred to this class. */ explicit ref_ptr (T *obj) : m_obj (obj) { } /* Copy another instance. */ ref_ptr (const ref_ptr &other) : m_obj (other.m_obj) { if (m_obj != NULL) Policy::incref (m_obj); } /* Transfer ownership from OTHER. */ ref_ptr (ref_ptr &&other) : m_obj (other.m_obj) { other.m_obj = NULL; } /* Destroy this instance. */ ~ref_ptr () { if (m_obj != NULL) Policy::decref (m_obj); } /* Copy another instance. */ ref_ptr &operator= (const ref_ptr &other) { /* Do nothing on self-assignment. */ if (this != &other) { reset (other.m_obj); if (m_obj != NULL) Policy::incref (m_obj); } return *this; } /* Transfer ownership from OTHER. */ ref_ptr &operator= (ref_ptr &&other) { /* Do nothing on self-assignment. */ if (this != &other) { reset (other.m_obj); other.m_obj = NULL; } return *this; } /* Change this instance's referent. OBJ is a reference, management of which is now transferred to this class. */ void reset (T *obj) { if (m_obj != NULL) Policy::decref (m_obj); m_obj = obj; } /* Return this instance's referent without changing the state of this class. */ T *get () const { return m_obj; } /* Return this instance's referent, and stop managing this reference. The caller is now responsible for the ownership of the reference. */ T *release () { T *result = m_obj; m_obj = NULL; return result; } /* Let users refer to members of the underlying pointer. */ T *operator-> () const { return m_obj; } /* Acquire a new reference and return a ref_ptr that owns it. */ static ref_ptr new_reference (T *obj) { Policy::incref (obj); return ref_ptr (obj); } private: T *m_obj; }; template inline bool operator== (const ref_ptr &lhs, const ref_ptr &rhs) { return lhs.get () == rhs.get (); } template inline bool operator== (const ref_ptr &lhs, const T *rhs) { return lhs.get () == rhs; } template inline bool operator== (const ref_ptr &lhs, const std::nullptr_t) { return lhs.get () == nullptr; } template inline bool operator== (const T *lhs, const ref_ptr &rhs) { return lhs == rhs.get (); } template inline bool operator== (const std::nullptr_t, const ref_ptr &rhs) { return nullptr == rhs.get (); } template inline bool operator!= (const ref_ptr &lhs, const ref_ptr &rhs) { return lhs.get () != rhs.get (); } template inline bool operator!= (const ref_ptr &lhs, const T *rhs) { return lhs.get () != rhs; } template inline bool operator!= (const ref_ptr &lhs, const std::nullptr_t) { return lhs.get () != nullptr; } template inline bool operator!= (const T *lhs, const ref_ptr &rhs) { return lhs != rhs.get (); } template inline bool operator!= (const std::nullptr_t, const ref_ptr &rhs) { return nullptr != rhs.get (); } } #endif /* GDB_REF_PTR_H */