We were allowing this dangerous kind of thing:
RefPtr<Base> base;
RefPtr<Derived> derived = base;
This patch changes the {Nonnull,}RefPtr constructors so this is no
longer possible.
To downcast one of these pointers, there is now static_ptr_cast<T>:
RefPtr<Derived> derived = static_ptr_cast<Derived>(base);
Fixing this exposed a ton of cowboy-downcasts in various places,
which we're now forced to fix. :^)
This allows RefPtr to be stored in a HashTable<RefPtr<T>> :^)
It's unfortunate about the const_casts. We'll need to fix HashMap::get
to play nice with non-const Traits<T>::PeekType at some point.
As suggested by Joshua, this commit adds the 2-clause BSD license as a
comment block to the top of every source file.
For the first pass, I've just added myself for simplicity. I encourage
everyone to add themselves as copyright holders of any file they've
added or modified in some significant way. If I've added myself in
error somewhere, feel free to replace it with the appropriate copyright
holder instead.
Going forward, all new source files should include a license header.
Add the concept of a PeekType to Traits<T>. This is the type we'll
return (wrapped in an Optional) from HashMap::get().
The PeekType for OwnPtr<T> and NonnullOwnPtr<T> is const T*,
which means that HashMap::get() will return an Optional<const T*> for
maps-of-those.
Use AK::exchange() to switch out the internal storage. Also mark these
functions with [[nodiscard]] to provoke an compile-time error if they
are called without using the return value.
We shouldn't allow constructing e.g an OwnPtr from a RefPtr, and similar
conversions. Instead just delete those functions so the compiler whines
loudly if you try to use them.
This patch also deletes constructing OwnPtr from a WeakPtr, even though
that *may* be a valid thing to do, it's sufficiently weird that we can
make the client jump through some hoops if he really wants it. :^)
This patch removes copy_ref() from RefPtr and NonnullRefPtr. This means that
it's now okay to simply copy these smart pointers instead:
- RefPtr = RefPtr // Okay!
- RefPtr = NonnullRefPtr // Okay!
- NonnullRefPtr = NonnullRefPtr // Okay!
- NonnullRefPtr = RefPtr // Not okay, since RefPtr can be null.
I had a silly ambition that we would avoid unnecessary ref count churn by
forcing explicit use of "copy_ref()" wherever a copy was actually needed.
This was making RefPtr a bit clunky to work with, for no real benefit.
This patch adds the missing copy construction/assignment stuff to RefPtr.
