gecko-dev/mfbt/Alignment.h
Nathan Froyd 46ffc41619 Bug 1435382 - fix documentation for AlignedElem; r=me
Sub-byte alignment isn't really a thing.

DONTBUILD because documentation fixes are always safe, amirite?
2018-02-02 15:24:51 -05:00

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
/* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
/* Functionality related to memory alignment. */
#ifndef mozilla_Alignment_h
#define mozilla_Alignment_h
#include "mozilla/Attributes.h"
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>
namespace mozilla {
/*
* This class, and the corresponding macro MOZ_ALIGNOF, figures out how many
* bytes of alignment a given type needs.
*/
template<typename T>
class AlignmentFinder
{
struct Aligner
{
char mChar;
T mT;
};
public:
static const size_t alignment = sizeof(Aligner) - sizeof(T);
};
#define MOZ_ALIGNOF(T) mozilla::AlignmentFinder<T>::alignment
namespace detail {
template<typename T>
struct AlignasHelper
{
T mT;
};
} // namespace detail
/*
* Use this instead of alignof to align struct field as if it is inside
* a struct. On some platforms, there exist types which have different
* alignment between when it is used on its own and when it is used on
* a struct field.
*
* Known examples are 64bit types (uint64_t, double) on 32bit Linux,
* where they have 8byte alignment on their own, and 4byte alignment
* when in struct.
*/
#define MOZ_ALIGNAS_IN_STRUCT(T) alignas(mozilla::detail::AlignasHelper<T>)
/*
* Declare the MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL macro for declaring aligned types.
*
* For instance,
*
* MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(char arr[2], 8);
*
* will declare a two-character array |arr| aligned to 8 bytes.
*/
#if defined(__GNUC__)
# define MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(_type, _align) \
_type __attribute__((aligned(_align)))
#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
# define MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(_type, _align) \
__declspec(align(_align)) _type
#else
# warning "We don't know how to align variables on this compiler."
# define MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(_type, _align) _type
#endif
/*
* AlignedElem<N> is a structure whose alignment is guaranteed to be at least N
* bytes.
*
* We support 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16-byte alignment.
*/
template<size_t Align>
struct AlignedElem;
/*
* We have to specialize this template because GCC doesn't like
* __attribute__((aligned(foo))) where foo is a template parameter.
*/
template<>
struct AlignedElem<1>
{
MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(uint8_t elem, 1);
};
template<>
struct AlignedElem<2>
{
MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(uint8_t elem, 2);
};
template<>
struct AlignedElem<4>
{
MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(uint8_t elem, 4);
};
template<>
struct AlignedElem<8>
{
MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(uint8_t elem, 8);
};
template<>
struct AlignedElem<16>
{
MOZ_ALIGNED_DECL(uint8_t elem, 16);
};
template<typename T>
struct MOZ_INHERIT_TYPE_ANNOTATIONS_FROM_TEMPLATE_ARGS AlignedStorage2
{
union U
{
char mBytes[sizeof(T)];
uint64_t mDummy;
} u;
const T* addr() const { return reinterpret_cast<const T*>(u.mBytes); }
T* addr() { return static_cast<T*>(static_cast<void*>(u.mBytes)); }
AlignedStorage2() = default;
// AlignedStorage2 is non-copyable: the default copy constructor violates
// strict aliasing rules, per bug 1269319.
AlignedStorage2(const AlignedStorage2&) = delete;
void operator=(const AlignedStorage2&) = delete;
};
} /* namespace mozilla */
#endif /* mozilla_Alignment_h */