Everything that goes in a PLDHashtable (and its derivatives, like
nsTHashtable) needs to inherit from PLDHashEntryHdr. But through a lack
of enforcement, copy constructors for these derived classes didn't
explicitly invoke the copy constructor for PLDHashEntryHdr (and the
compiler didn't invoke the copy constructor for us). Instead,
PLDHashTable explicitly copied around the bits that the copy constructor
would have.
The current setup has two problems:
1) Derived classes should be using move construction, not copy
construction, since anything that's shuffling hash table keys/entries
around will be using move construction.
2) Derived classes should take responsibility for transferring bits of
superclass state around, and not rely on something else to handle that.
The second point is not a huge problem for PLDHashTable (PLDHashTable
only has to copy PLDHashEntryHdr's bits in a single place), but future
hash table implementations that might move entries around more
aggressively would have to insert compensation code all over the
place. Additionally, if moving entries is implemented via memcpy (which
is quite common), PLDHashTable copying around bits *again* is
inefficient.
Let's fix all these problems in one go, by:
1) Explicitly declaring the set of constructors that PLDHashEntryHdr
implements (and does not implement). In particular, the copy
constructor is deleted, so any derived classes that attempt to make
themselves copyable will be detected at compile time: the compiler
will complain that the superclass type is not copyable.
This change on its own will result in many compiler errors, so...
2) Change any derived classes to implement move constructors instead of
copy constructors. Note that some of these move constructors are,
strictly speaking, unnecessary, since the relevant classes are moved
via memcpy in nsTHashtable and its derivatives.
Some callers of PLDHashTable::Search() use const_cast, some others are not
const methods due to non-const PLDHashTable::Search().
This patch removes const_cast from the former and mark some methods of the
latter const.
MozReview-Commit-ID: C8ayoi7mXc1
nsCommandParams is used internally but accessed via nsICommandParams. For
such internal users, nsCommandParams should have non-virtual methods to
get/set values.
The new method names are similar to Preferences API for consistency with it.
MozReview-Commit-ID: FJwWMFzV9w
nsICommandParams::GetCStringValue() and nsICommandParams::SetCStringValue()
treat char. However, this makes their callers complicated. So, they should
be rewritten as treating nsACString.
MozReview-Commit-ID: DWO9veSyzyG
Mike Hommey