Re: Passing std::unique_ptr to std::thread's target

From:
SG <s.gesemann@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:39:12 CST
Message-ID:
<a17350be-b60a-4844-a9d9-c934da1e9c03@a27g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>
On 12 Aug., 00:02, Andy Venikov wrote:

On 08/10/2011 09:04 PM, Daniel Kr?gler wrote:

Exactly. glibc++ is using bind internally to forward the arguments to the
thread functor.
[...]
So, it looks like bind can't be used internally by thread library to
pass arguments.


Right. The easiest solution is probably to make use of make_tuple:

  auto argtup = make_tuple(std::forward<Args>(args)...);
  // store this thing

And later to forward it with a bit of meta programming:

  template<int... Ints>
  struct int_pack {};

  template<int N, int... Tail>
  struct make_indices : make_indices<N-1,N-1,Tail...> {};

  template<int... Tail>
  struct make_indices<0,Tail...> {
    typedef int_pack<Tail...> type;
  };

  template<class IntPack> struct invoke_helper;

  template<int... Indices>
  struct invoke_helper<int_pack<Indices...> > {
    template<class Func, class... T>
    static void doit(Func&& f, std::tuple<T...> const& a) {
      std::forward<Func>(f)(
          std::get<Indices>(a)...
      );
    }
    static void doit(Func&& f, std::tuple<T...> && a) {
      std::forward<Func>(f)(
        std::forward<typename std::tuple_element<Indices>::type>(
        // ^^^^^^^ (*)
          std::get<Indices>(a)
        )...
      );
    }
    // (*): this is intentionally no std::move since one of
    // the Ts might be an lvalue reference.
  };

  ...
  typedef decltype(argtup) argtup_type;
  constexpr int N = tuple_size<argtup_type>::value;
  typedef typename make_indices<N>::type indices;
  invoke_helper<indices>::doit(std::move(fun),std::move(argtup));
  // no longer needed in thread/async ^^^ ^^^^^^
  // hence the std::move.

(untested)

Cheers!
SG

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