std::launder 使用就地多态容器

Question

我正在用 C++ 为 Game Boy Advance 做一个有点不平凡的项目，并且作为一个完全没有内存管理的有限平台，我试图避免调用 malloc 和动态分配。为此，我已经实现了相当多的调用，"inplace polymorphic containers"，它存储从 Base class 派生的类型的对象（在类型模板中参数化），并且然后我有 new 对象的函数，并使用完美转发来调用适当的构造函数。例如，其中一个容器如下所示（也可以访问 here）：

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// PointerInterfaceContainer.hpp
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Provides a class that can effectively allocate objects derived from a
// base class and expose them as pointers from that base
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#pragma once

#include <cstdint>
#include <cstddef>
#include <algorithm>
#include "type_traits.hpp"

template <typename Base, std::size_t Size>
class alignas(max_align_t) PointerInterfaceContainer
{
    static_assert(std::is_default_constructible_v<Base>,
        "PointerInterfaceContainer will not work without a Base that is default constructible!");
    static_assert(std::has_virtual_destructor_v<Base>,
        "PointerInterfaceContainer will not work properly without virtual destructors!");
    static_assert(sizeof(Base) >= sizeof(std::intptr_t),
        "PointerInterfaceContainer must not be smaller than a pointer");

    std::byte storage[Size];

public:
    PointerInterfaceContainer() { new (storage) Base(); }

    template <typename Derived, typename... Ts>
    void assign(Ts&&... ts)
    {
        static_assert(std::is_base_of_v<Base, Derived>,
            "The Derived class must be derived from Base!");
        static_assert(sizeof(Derived) <= Size,
            "The Derived class is too big to fit in that PointerInterfaceContainer");
        static_assert(!is_virtual_base_of_v<Base, Derived>,
            "PointerInterfaceContainer does not work properly with virtual base classes!");

        reinterpret_cast<Base*>(storage)->~Base();
        new (storage) Derived(std::forward<Ts>(ts)...);
    }

    void clear() { assign<Base>(); }

    PointerInterfaceContainer(const PointerInterfaceContainer&) = delete;
    PointerInterfaceContainer(PointerInterfaceContainer&&) = delete;
    PointerInterfaceContainer &operator=(PointerInterfaceContainer) = delete;

    Base* operator->() { return reinterpret_cast<Base*>(storage); }
    const Base* operator->() const { return reinterpret_cast<const Base*>(storage); }

    Base& operator*() { return *reinterpret_cast<Base*>(storage); }
    const Base& operator*() const { return *reinterpret_cast<const Base*>(storage); }

    ~PointerInterfaceContainer()
    {
        reinterpret_cast<Base*>(storage)->~Base();
    }
};

看了一些关于std::launder的文章后，我仍然有疑问，但我猜想那几行代码可能会导致问题：

Base* operator->() { return reinterpret_cast<Base*>(storage); }
const Base* operator->() const { return reinterpret_cast<const Base*>(storage); }

Base& operator*() { return *reinterpret_cast<Base*>(storage); }
const Base& operator*() const { return *reinterpret_cast<const Base*>(storage); }

特别是如果 Derived 有问题（或 Base 本身）有 const 成员或引用。我要问的是关于 std::launder 的使用的一般准则，不仅针对这个（和另一个）容器。你觉得怎么样？

因此，建议的解决方案之一是添加一个指针来接收 new (storage) Derived(std::forward<Ts>(ts)...); 的内容，如图所示：

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// PointerInterfaceContainer.hpp
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Provides a class that can effectively allocate objects derived from a
// base class and expose them as pointers from that base
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#pragma once

#include <cstdint>
#include <cstddef>
#include <algorithm>
#include <utility>
#include "type_traits.hpp"

template <typename Base, std::size_t Size>
class alignas(max_align_t) PointerInterfaceContainer
{
    static_assert(std::is_default_constructible_v<Base>,
        "PointerInterfaceContainer will not work without a Base that is default constructible!");
    static_assert(std::has_virtual_destructor_v<Base>,
        "PointerInterfaceContainer will not work properly without virtual destructors!");
    static_assert(sizeof(Base) >= sizeof(std::intptr_t),
        "PointerInterfaceContainer must not be smaller than a pointer");

    // This pointer will, in 100% of the cases, point to storage
    // because the codebase won't have any Derived from which Base
    // isn't the primary base class, but it needs to be there because
    // casting storage to Base* is undefined behavior
    Base *curObject;
    std::byte storage[Size];

public:
    PointerInterfaceContainer() { curObject = new (storage) Base(); }

    template <typename Derived, typename... Ts>
    void assign(Ts&&... ts)
    {
        static_assert(std::is_base_of_v<Base, Derived>,
            "The Derived class must be derived from Base!");
        static_assert(sizeof(Derived) <= Size,
            "The Derived class is too big to fit in that PointerInterfaceContainer");
        static_assert(!is_virtual_base_of_v<Base, Derived>,
            "PointerInterfaceContainer does not work properly with virtual base classes!");

        curObject->~Base();
        curObject = new (storage) Derived(std::forward<Ts>(ts)...);
    }

    void clear() { assign<Base>(); }

    PointerInterfaceContainer(const PointerInterfaceContainer&) = delete;
    PointerInterfaceContainer(PointerInterfaceContainer&&) = delete;
    PointerInterfaceContainer &operator=(PointerInterfaceContainer) = delete;

    Base* operator->() { return curObject; }
    const Base* operator->() const { return curObject; }

    Base& operator*() { return *curObject; }
    const Base& operator*() const { return *curObject; }

    ~PointerInterfaceContainer()
    {
        curObject->~Base();
    }
};

但这基本上意味着代码中每个 PointerInterfaceContainer 字节的开销 sizeof(void*) 字节（在所讨论的体系结构中为 4）。这似乎不是很多，但如果我想填充 1024 个容器，每个容器有 128 个字节，这个开销会加起来。另外，它需要第二次内存访问才能访问指针，并且假设在 99% 的情况下，Derived 将以 Base 作为主要基础 class（这意味着 static_cast<Derved*>(curObject) 和 curObject 是相同的位置），这意味着指针将始终指向 storage，这意味着所有开销都是完全不必要的。

Answer 1

storage在

中的std::byte对象

reinterpret_cast<Base*>(storage)

将在数组到指针衰减后指向，不是 指针可相互转换的 与位于该地址的任何 Base 对象。数组元素 提供存储 和它为其提供存储的对象之间绝不会出现这种情况。

Pointer-interconvertibility 基本上只适用于在标准布局 classes 和它们的 members/bases 之间转换指针（并且仅在特殊情况下）。这些是唯一不需要 std::launder 的情况。

所以一般来说，对于您尝试从为对象提供存储的数组中获取指向对象的指针的用例，您始终需要应用std::launder 在 reinterpret_cast.

之后

因此，您必须始终在您目前使用 reinterpret_cast 的所有情况下使用 std::launder。例如：

reinterpret_cast<Base*>(storage)->~Base();

应该是

std::launder(reinterpret_cast<Base*>(storage))->~Base();

但是请注意，从 C++ 标准的角度来看，您尝试做的事情仍然不能保证有效，并且没有强制执行它的标准方法。

你的 class Base 需要一个虚拟析构函数。这意味着 Base 和所有从它派生的 class 不是 standard-layout。非标准布局的 class 实际上无法保证其布局。这意味着您无法保证 Derived 对象的地址等于 Base 子对象的地址，无论您如何让 Derived 继承自 Base。

如果地址不匹配，std::launder 将有未定义的行为，因为在您完成 new(storage) Derived 后该地址将不会有 Base 对象。

因此您需要依靠 ABI 规范来确保 Base 子对象的地址将等于 Derived 对象的地址。

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