vsapsai added inline comments.
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Comment at: libcxx/include/memory:1479
+struct __has_construct_missing
+ : false_type
+{
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vsapsai wrote:
> erik.pilkington wrote:
> > vsapsai wrote:
> > > erik.pilkington wrote:
> > > > Shouldn't this be true_type?
> > > I see this is confusing and I'm still struggling how to express it. The
> > > issue is that in C++03 `__has_construct` should be something like
> > > unknown, so that neither `__has_construct` nor `! __has_construct`
> > > evaluate to true because we don't really know if allocator has construct.
> > > This case is covered by the added test, in C++03 the memcpy
> > > specialization was enabled when
> > >
> > > ```
> > > is_same<allocator_type, allocator<_Tp> >
> > > || !false_type
> > > ```
> > >
> > > So `is_same` check had no effect and we were using memcpy to convert
> > > between int and float.
> > >
> > > I was considering using something like
> > >
> > > ```lang=c++
> > > typename enable_if
> > > <
> > > (is_same
> > > <
> > > typename _VSTD::remove_const<typename
> > > allocator_type::value_type>::type,
> > > typename _VSTD::remove_const<_SourceTp>::type
> > > >::value
> > > #ifndef _LIBCPP_CXX03_LANG
> > > || !__has_construct<allocator_type, _DestTp*,
> > > _SourceTp>::value
> > > #endif
> > > ) &&
> > > is_trivially_move_constructible<_DestTp>::value,
> > > void
> > > >::type
> > > ```
> > >
> > > But that doesn't look readable to me, so I've introduced ad-hoc ternary
> > > logic with `__has_construct_missing`.
> > Oh I see, yikes! That's a pretty bad bug. I agree that this fix is best
> > then, but can you add a comment explaining this to
> > `__has_construct_missing` for future casual readers? Also, I think we
> > should move the __has_construct_missing bugfix into a different
> > (prerequisite) patch. Seems unrelated to the `const` related optimization
> > below.
> The bug as I described isn't really present now because function signature
>
> __construct_range_forward(allocator_type&, _Tp* __begin1, _Tp* __end1,
> _Tp*& __begin2)
>
> works as implicit `is_same` for `__begin1` and `__begin2` types. I think it
> is worth fixing separately and there is a bug with C++03 and custom
> allocators.
Instead of `__has_construct_missing` I've implemented real `__has_construct` in
D48753. But it is stricter in C++03 than in C++11 and later. So it made me
think that absence of `construct` with exact signature isn't a good reason to
use memcpy.
https://reviews.llvm.org/D48342
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