abg-interned-str.h

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
// -*- Mode: C++ -*-
//
// Copyright (C) 2016-2025 Red Hat, Inc.
//
// Author: Dodji Seketeli
 
/// @file
///
/// Declaration of types pertaining to the interned string pool used
/// throughout Libabigail, for performance reasons.
///
/// For the record, the concept of the String Interning method is
/// explained at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interning.
 
#ifndef __ABG_INTERNED_STR_H__
#define __ABG_INTERNED_STR_H__
 
#include <functional>
#include <memory>
#include <ostream>
#include <string>
#include <unordered_set>
 
 
namespace abigail
{
// Inject some std types into this namespace.
using std::unordered_set;
using std::string;
using std::ostream;
 
/// The abstraction of an interned string.
///
/// It's a wrapper around a pointer to a std::string, along with a set
/// of method that helps make this string integrate with std::string
/// seamlessly.  For instance, the type provides equality operators
/// that help compare it against std::string.
///
/// Note that this @ref interned_string type is design to have the
/// same size as a pointer to a string.
class interned_string
{
  std::string* raw_;
 
  /// Constructor.
  ///
  /// @param raw the pointer to string that this interned_string
  /// wraps.
  interned_string(string* raw)
    : raw_(raw)
  {}
 
public:
 
  /// Default constructor.
  ///
  /// Constructs an empty pointer to string.
  interned_string()
    : raw_()
  {}
 
  /// Copy constructor.
  ///
  /// @param o the other instance to copy from.
  interned_string(const interned_string& o)
  {raw_ = o.raw_;}
 
  /// Assignment operator.
  ///
  /// @param o the other instance to assign to the current one.
  interned_string&
  operator=(const interned_string& o)
  {
    raw_ = o.raw_;
    return *this;
  }
 
  /// Clear the string.
  void
  clear()
  {raw_ = 0;}
 
  /// Test if the current instance of @ref interned_string is empty.
  ///
  /// @return true iff the currentisntance of @ref interned_string is
  /// empty.
  bool
  empty() const
  {return !raw_;}
 
  /// Return the underlying pointer to std::string that this
  /// interned_string wraps.
  ///
  /// @return a pointer to the underlying std::string, or 0 if this
  /// interned_string is empty.
  const string*
  raw() const
  {return raw_;}
 
  /// Compare the current instance of @ref interned_string against
  /// another instance of @ref interned_string.
  ///
  /// Note that this comparison is done in O(1), because it compares
  /// the pointer values of the two underlying pointers to std::string
  /// held by each instances of @ref interned_string.
  ///
  /// @param o the other @ref interned_string to compare against.
  ///
  /// @return true iff the current instance equals @p o.
  bool
  operator==(const interned_string& o) const
  {return raw_ == o.raw_;}
 
  /// Inequality operator.
  ///
  /// @param o the other @ref interned_string to compare the current
  /// instance against.
  ///
  /// @return true iff the current instance is different from the @p
  /// o.
  bool
  operator!=(const interned_string& o) const
  {return !operator==(o);}
 
  /// Compare the current instance of @ref interned_string against
  /// an instance of std::string.
  ///
  /// Note that this comparison is done in O(N), N being the size (in
  /// number of characters) of the strings being compared.
  ///
  /// @param o the instance of std::string to compare against.
  ///
  /// @return true iff the current instance equals @p o.
  bool
  operator==(const string& o) const
  {
    if (raw_)
      return *raw_ == o;
    return o.empty();
  }
 
  /// Inequality operator.
  ///
  /// Takes the current instance of @ref interned_string and an
  /// instance of std::string.
  ///
  /// @param o the instance of std::string to compare the current
  /// instance of @ref interned_string against.
  ///
  /// @return true if the current instance of @ref interned_string is
  /// different from @p o.
  bool
  operator!=(const string& o) const
  {return ! operator==(o);}
 
  /// "Less than" operator.
  ///
  /// Lexicographically compares the current instance of @ref
  /// interned_string against another instance.
  ///
  /// @param o the other instance of @ref interned_string to compare
  /// against.
  ///
  /// @return true iff the current instance of interned_string is
  /// lexicographycally less than the string @p o.
  bool
  operator<(const interned_string& o) const
  {return static_cast<string>(*this) < static_cast<std::string>(o);}
 
  /// Conversion operator to string.
  ///
  /// @return the underlying string this instance refers too.
  operator string() const
  {
    if (!raw_)
      return "";
    return *raw_;
  }
 
  friend class interned_string_pool;
}; // end class interned_string
 
bool
operator==(const string& l, const interned_string& r);
 
bool
operator!=(const string& l, const interned_string& r);
 
ostream&
operator<<(ostream& o, const interned_string& s);
 
string
operator+(const interned_string& s1,const string& s2);
 
string
operator+(const string& s1, const interned_string& s2);
 
/// A functor to hash instances of @ref interned_string.
struct hash_interned_string
{
  /// The hash operator.
  ///
  /// It's super fast because hashing an interned string amounts to
  /// hashing the pointer to it's underlying string.  It's because
  /// every distinct string is present only in one copy in the
  /// environment.
  ///
  /// @param s the instance of @ref interned_string to hash.
  ///
  /// @return the returned hash value.
  size_t
  operator()(const interned_string& s) const
  {
    std::hash<size_t> hash_size_t;
    return hash_size_t(reinterpret_cast<size_t>(s.raw()));
  }
}; // end struct hash_interned_string
 
 
/// The interned string pool.
///
/// This is where all the distinct strings represented by the interned
/// strings leave.  The pool is the actor responsible for creating
/// interned strings.
class interned_string_pool
{
  struct priv;
  std::unique_ptr<priv> priv_;
 
public:
 
  interned_string_pool();
 
  interned_string
  create_string(const std::string&);
 
  bool
  has_string(const char* s) const;
 
  const char*
  get_string(const char* s) const;
 
  ~interned_string_pool();
}; // end class interned_string_pool
 
/// Convenience typedef for a set of @ref interned_string
typedef unordered_set<interned_string,
              hash_interned_string> interned_string_set_type;
 
} // end namespace abigail
 
#endif // __ABG_INTERNED_STR_H__