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Change unique_span to take a deleter object taking a span, not a template param accepting taking pointer #678

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eyalroz opened this issue Sep 10, 2024 · 0 comments

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eyalroz commented Sep 10, 2024

unique_span deletion - destruction and de-allocation - is more complex than one might think. With trivially-constructible types, we can supposed just use new T[size] to start off and then delete[] eventually. But in fact, the code which needs to run when we perform raw allocation and placement-new construction - a-la std::vector - is more complex, and definitely depends on array size. It is problematic to presume we know how to delete given only a pointer and no size, and unable to make a last-minute call about this. Specifically, the current setup makes it impossible to determine how many placement-destruct's are necessary given a pointer.

Moreover, the bespoke deleter causes unique_span's to be nearly non-interchangeable, because their types are deleter-dependent.

Even though it may cost us a few more bytes, let's:

  • Remove the extra template parameter from `unique_span<T, Deleter> (this means the memory::XXXX:unique_span's will now be just unique_span's)
  • Use a 'universal' deleter type - which can't just be instantiated
  • Offer a default, simple, actual deleter
  • Offer span uspan makers/generators of fixed value and by function.
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eyalroz added a commit that referenced this issue Sep 10, 2024
* Dropped the deleter template parameter
* Added a deleter member - always of the same type
* The deleter now takes the span
* Added a unique_span generator for non-default-constructible elements
* Dropped the per-memory-space unique_span types - they're all the same type now
* Made the default constructor explicitly zero thing out to avoid spurious deletions of uninitialized / partially uninitialized spans
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