Re: move only types in standard containers

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Kr=FCgler?= <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com>
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Date:
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:50:28 CST
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On 26 Apr., 10:52, Brendan <catph...@catphive.net> wrote:

I'm trying to use a type that is moveable, but not copyable, in a
standard container, in this case an unordered_map. When I try to
insert it, I get complaints about a deleted copy constructor. I
thought that move only objects were supported in standard containers?

Here's my type:

struct session_t {
     session_t() : fd(make_unique_fd(0)) {}
     session_t(const session_t&) = delete;
     session_t& operator=(const session_t&) = delete;
     session_t(session_t&& session) : fd(move(session.fd)) {}
     session_t& operator=(session_t&& other) {
         if (this != &other) {
             fd = move(other.fd);
         }
         return *this;
     }

     unique_fd fd;
};

typedef unordered_map<int, session_t> session_map;

Heres where the error pops up:
map.insert(make_pair(*session.fd, move(session)));


This should work. It should also work more directly
by writing

map.emplace(*session.fd, std::move(session));

instead.

Testing on GCC 4.4


Even the most recent 4.5.0-1 trunk of gcc does not
properly handle this and does not recognize the
emplace member function. Same problem for std::map.
Looks like an incomplete implementation to me in
regard to the working draft.

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Kr?gler

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