Re: Resetable mixin / idiom

From:
Mathias Gaunard <loufoque@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:42:24 CST
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On 17 juil, 03:50, pt <gall.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 16 Lip, 19:21, Dragan Milenkovic <dra...@plusplus.rs> wrote:

pt wrote:

template<typename T, typename... A>
void reset(T & t, A && ... a) {
   t.~T();
   new (&t) T(forward<A>(a)...);
}


The very first thing that comes to my mind is exception safety
(unless you require a no-throw constructor). There are a few
solutions to this problem.


Can you please explain the solution to the exception problem?


template<typename T, typename... A>
void reset(T& t, A&&... a)
{
   t = T(forward<A>(a)...);
}

which is simple and just works for all types,

or

template<typename T, typename... A>
void reset(T& t, A&&... a)
{
   T tmp(forward<A>(a)...);
   swap(t, tmp);
}

which does nothing more than invoking your typical operator=
implementation directly,

or

template<typename T, typename... A>
void reset(T& t, A&&... a)
{
   T old(move(t));
   t->~T();
   try
   {
       new(&t) T(forward<A>(a)...);
   }
   catch(...)
   {
       try
       {
           new(&t) T(move(old));
       }
       catch(...)
       {
           terminate();
       }
       throw;
   }
}

which saves the old value, destructs, and then restores it on failure
to construct the new value. (requires nothrow move constructor)

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