Re: Class invariants and implicit move constructors (C++0x)
On 15 Aug., 06:07, Scott Meyers wrote:
[...]
The above scenario suggests that compiler-generated move operations may be
unsafe even when the corresponding compiler-generated copy operations are safe.
Is this a valid analysis?
Yes, I think so. Thanks for pointing out this example. Actually, I've
recently written a class with a member of type vector<deque<float> >
where I also keep track of the minimum deque length and how many
deques have this minimum length. But I don't check this invariant
prior to destruction so it would only fail if the moved-from object is
still used without any kind of "re-initialization".
I guess the important question is: Are these tolerable corner cases?
Under the current rules, a solution for your example doesn't require
writing your own move operations or deleting them. It could look like
this:
class Widget {
public:
...
private:
std::vector<int> v1;
std::vector<int> v2;
mutable std::size_t cachedSumOfSizes;
mutable replace_on_move<bool,false> cacheIsUpToDate;
...
};
where replace_on_move<bool,false> is a class that wraps a bool and
sets it to false when it is moved from. I guess such a class template
would come in handy.
Cheers!
SG
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