Difference between revisions of "cpp/memory/get temporary buffer"

Latest revision as of 23:36, 17 August 2023

If count is negative or zero, does nothing.

Otherwise, requests to allocate uninitialized contiguous storage for count adjacent objects of type T. The request is non-binding, and the implementation may instead allocate the storage for any other number of (including zero) adjacent objects of type T.

[edit] Parameters

[edit] Return value

A std::pair, the member first is a pointer to the beginning of the allocated storage and the member second is the number of objects that fit in the storage that was actually allocated.

If count <= 0 or allocated storage is not enough to store a single element of type T, the member first of the result is a null pointer and the member second is zero.

[edit] Notes

This API was originally designed with the intent of providing a more efficient implementation than the general-purpose operator new, but no such implementation was created and the API was deprecated and removed.

[edit] Example

#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <memory>
#include <string>
 
int main()
{
    const std::string s[] = {"string", "1", "test", "..."};
    const auto p = std::get_temporary_buffer<std::string>(4);
    // requires that p.first is passed to return_temporary_buffer
    // (beware of early exit points and exceptions), or better use:
    std::unique_ptr<std::string, void(*)(std::string*)> on_exit(p.first,
    [](std::string* p)
    {
        std::cout << "returning temporary buffer...\n";
        std::return_temporary_buffer(p);
    });
 
    std::copy(s, s + p.second,
              std::raw_storage_iterator<std::string*, std::string>(p.first));
    // has same effect as: std::uninitialized_copy(s, s + p.second, p.first);
    // requires that each string in p is individually destroyed
    // (beware of early exit points and exceptions)
 
    std::copy(p.first, p.first + p.second,
              std::ostream_iterator<std::string>{std::cout, "\n"});
 
    std::for_each(p.first, p.first + p.second, [](std::string& e)
    {
        e.~basic_string<char>();
    }); // same as: std::destroy(p.first, p.first + p.second);
 
    // manually reclaim memory if unique_ptr-like technique is not used:
    // std::return_temporary_buffer(p.first);
}

string
1
test
...
returning temporary buffer...

[edit] Defect reports

The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.

[edit] See also