// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. // ManualConstructor statically-allocates space in which to store some // object, but does not initialize it. You can then call the constructor // and destructor for the object yourself as you see fit. This is useful // for memory management optimizations, where you want to initialize and // destroy an object multiple times but only allocate it once. // // (When I say ManualConstructor statically allocates space, I mean that // the ManualConstructor object itself is forced to be the right size.) // // For example usage, check out base/containers/small_map.h. #ifndef BASE_MEMORY_MANUAL_CONSTRUCTOR_H_ #define BASE_MEMORY_MANUAL_CONSTRUCTOR_H_ #include #include "base/compiler_specific.h" #include "base/memory/aligned_memory.h" namespace base { template class ManualConstructor { public: // No constructor or destructor because one of the most useful uses of // this class is as part of a union, and members of a union cannot have // constructors or destructors. And, anyway, the whole point of this // class is to bypass these. // Support users creating arrays of ManualConstructor<>s. This ensures that // the array itself has the correct alignment. static void* operator new[](size_t size) { return AlignedAlloc(size, alignof(Type)); } static void operator delete[](void* mem) { AlignedFree(mem); } inline Type* get() { return reinterpret_cast(space_); } inline const Type* get() const { return reinterpret_cast(space_); } inline Type* operator->() { return get(); } inline const Type* operator->() const { return get(); } inline Type& operator*() { return *get(); } inline const Type& operator*() const { return *get(); } template inline void Init(Ts&&... params) { new (space_) Type(std::forward(params)...); } inline void InitFromMove(ManualConstructor&& o) { Init(std::move(*o)); } inline void Destroy() { get()->~Type(); } private: alignas(Type) char space_[sizeof(Type)]; }; } // namespace base #endif // BASE_MEMORY_MANUAL_CONSTRUCTOR_H_