Please help me see whether this is exception-safe

From:
alan <almkglor@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:47:57 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<3ae19125-ee1e-4def-bbff-050b60166fc5@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
I have a set of classes, cell, cell_body, and cell_internal.

cell_internal is an abstract base class, intended to encapsulate
deferred computation.

cell is just a wrapped pointer around cell_body; this is the user's
interface to this code.
When a cell is created, it creates a cell_body and attaches a
shared_ptr member (value_) to the body. This shared_ptr should never
be changed; the cell can only have one cell_body during its lifetime.

The cell_body holds a pointer to a cell_internal; when the cell's
value is taken by the member get_value(), it calls cell_body's
get_value(), which calls cell_internal's virtual cell_value(). This
virtual cell_value then computes the correct value. Basically the
get_value() function performs the computation that has been deferred.

Copying a cell to a cell does not, in fact, copy the cell; instead,
the destination cell is "attached" to the source cell, so that
changing the value of one changes the value of the other. So:
cell<int> i, j;
i = j;
j = 1; //now i is also 1
Actually what is being attached are the cell_body's. A new
cell_internal derived class (cell_shadow) is created, whose virtual
get_value() simply calls the get_value() of the cell_body it is
constructed with.

I don't use cell_body directly because of the possibility of
temporaries. When a cell is destroyed, its cell_body may still
survive, for example when referred from a global variable.

I think I may need to do swap-copy, but I don't quite understand yet
where I need to put it.

/*
 * */

#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <boost/scoped_ptr.hpp>

/* cell_internal
 * Interface to handle the deferred computation
 * */
template<class T>
class cell_internal{
public:
    virtual T get_value(void) const=0;
    virtual ~cell_internal(){};
};

template<class T>
struct cell_internal_ptr{
    typedef boost::shared_ptr< const cell_internal<T> > type;
};

/* cell_constant
 * Handles constant numeric values
 * */
template<class T>
class cell_constant: public cell_internal<T>{
    T c_;
public:
    cell_constant<T>(const T& v): c_(v) {};
    T get_value(void) const {return c_;};
};

/* cell_body
 * The actual cell structure
 * */
template<class T>
class cell_body{
    typename cell_internal_ptr<T>::type value_;
public:
    cell_body(const cell_internal<T>* v): value_(v) {};
    cell_body(const typename cell_internal_ptr<T>::type v): value_(v) {}
    T get_value(void) const {
        return value_->get_value();
    };
    void set(const cell_internal<T>* v){
        value_.reset(v);
    }
};

template<class T>
struct cell_body_ptr{
    typedef boost::shared_ptr< const cell_body<T> > type;
};

/* cell_shadow
 * Shadows a given cell_body
 * */
template<class T>
class cell_shadow: public cell_internal<T>{
    boost::shared_ptr< const cell_body<T> > var_;
public:
    cell_shadow<T>(const cell_body<T>* v) : var_(v){};
    cell_shadow<T>(const boost::shared_ptr< cell_body<T> >& v):
        var_(v){};
    T get_value(void) const {return var_->get_value();};
};

/* cell_op
 * Handles a binary operation
 * */
template<class T, class BinaryOperation>
class cell_op: public cell_internal<T>{
    boost::shared_ptr< const cell_body<T> > lhs_;
    boost::shared_ptr< const cell_body<T> > rhs_;
public:
    cell_op<T, BinaryOperation>( const boost::shared_ptr< const
cell_body<T> >& lhs,
                    const boost::shared_ptr< const cell_body<T> >& rhs
        ) :
        lhs_(lhs),
        rhs_(rhs) { };
    cell_op<T, BinaryOperation>( cell_body<T>* lhs, cell_body<T>* rhs):
        lhs_(lhs),
        rhs_(rhs) { };
    T get_value(void) const {
        return BinaryOperation()(lhs_->get_value(), rhs_->get_value());
    };
};

/* cell_singelop
 * Handles a unary operation
 * */
//template<class T, class UnaryOperation>
//class cell_singleop: public cell_internal<T>{
//};

/* cell
 * Acts as the user's interface to the cell_body
 * Effectively just a wrapper around a pointer to the cell_body
 * IMPORTANT. Each cell will have one, and only one, cell_body
 * during its lifetime. A cell_body, however, may outlive its
 * cell (for example if the cell is a local variable that is
 * then used in the formula for a global variable - at the end
 * of the function the local cell is destroyed, but the cell_body
 * is retained via a cell_shadow by the formula for the global).
 * */
template<class T>
class cell{
    void set(const cell_internal<T>* v){
        value_->set(v);
    }
    boost::shared_ptr< cell_body<T> > value_;
public:
    cell<T>(const cell<T>& v){
        value_.reset(new cell_body<T>(new cell_shadow<T>(v.value_)));
    }
    cell<T>(const T& v=T()){
        value_.reset(new cell_body<T>(new cell_constant<T>(v)));
    }
    cell<T>(const typename cell_internal_ptr<T>::type& v){
        value_.reset(new cell_body<T>(v));
    }
    cell<T>(const cell_internal<T>* v){
        value_.reset(new cell_body<T>(v));
    }

    cell<T>& operator=(const cell<T>& v){
        if(&v != this){
            set(new cell_shadow<T>(v.value_));
        }
    }
    cell<T>& operator=(const T& v){
        set(new cell_constant<T>(v));
    }
    cell<T>& operator=(const typename cell_internal_ptr<T>::type& v){
        set(&(*v));
    }

    cell<T> operator+(const cell<T>& rhs) const {
        return cell<T>(
            new cell_op<T, std::plus<T> >(
                value_,
                rhs.value_
            )
        );
    };

    T get_value(void) const {return value_->get_value();}
};

template<class T>
inline cell<T> operator+(const cell<T>& lhs, const T& rhs){
    return lhs + cell<T>(rhs);
}

template<class T>
inline cell<T> operator+(const T& lhs, const cell<T>& rhs){
    return cell<T>(lhs) + rhs;
}

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