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Alexis Beingessner 9 years ago committed by Manish Goregaokar
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% Example: Implementing Vec
TODO: audit for non-ZST offsets from heap::empty
To bring everything together, we're going to write `std::Vec` from scratch.
Because the all the best tools for writing unsafe code are unstable, this
project will only work on nightly (as of Rust 1.2.0).
# Layout
First off, we need to come up with the struct layout. Naively we want this
@ -63,16 +63,19 @@ as `std::rt::heap::EMPTY`. There are quite a few places where we'll want to use
`heap::EMPTY` because there's no real allocation to talk about but `null` would
make the compiler angry.
All of the `heap` API is totally unstable under the `alloc` feature, though.
All of the `heap` API is totally unstable under the `heap_api` feature, though.
We could trivially define `heap::EMPTY` ourselves, but we'll want the rest of
the `heap` API anyway, so let's just get that dependency over with.
# Allocating Memory
So:
```rust
#![feature(alloc)]
#![feature(heap_api)]
use std::rt::heap::EMPTY;
use std::mem;
@ -184,6 +187,10 @@ fn grow(&mut self) {
Nothing particularly tricky here. Just computing sizes and alignments and doing
some careful multiplication checks.
# Push and Pop
Alright. We can initialize. We can allocate. Let's actually implement some
@ -240,6 +247,10 @@ pub fn pop(&mut self) -> Option<T> {
}
```
# Deallocating
Next we should implement Drop so that we don't massively leaks tons of resources.
@ -270,6 +281,10 @@ impl<T> Drop for Vec<T> {
}
```
# Deref
Alright! We've got a decent minimal ArrayStack implemented. We can push, we can
@ -311,6 +326,10 @@ impl<T> DerefMut for Vec<T> {
Now we have `len`, `first`, `last`, indexing, slicing, sorting, `iter`, `iter_mut`,
and all other sorts of bells and whistles provided by slice. Sweet!
# Insert and Remove
Something *not* provided but slice is `insert` and `remove`, so let's do those next.
@ -362,6 +381,10 @@ pub fn remove(&mut self, index: usize) -> T {
}
```
# IntoIter
Let's move on to writing iterators. `iter` and `iter_mut` have already been
@ -410,7 +433,22 @@ struct IntoIter<T> {
}
```
And initialize it like this:
One last subtle detail: if our Vec is empty, we want to produce an empty iterator.
This will actually technically fall out doing the naive thing of:
```text
start = ptr
end = ptr.offset(len)
```
However because `offset` is marked as a GEP inbounds instruction, this will tell
llVM that ptr is allocated and won't alias other allocated memory. This is fine
for zero-sized types, as they can't alias anything. However if we're using
heap::EMPTY as a sentinel for a non-allocation for a *non-zero-sized* type,
this can cause undefined behaviour. Alas, we must therefore special case either
cap or len being 0 to not do the offset.
So this is what we end up with for initialization:
```rust
impl<T> Vec<T> {
@ -428,7 +466,12 @@ impl<T> Vec<T> {
buf: ptr,
cap: cap,
start: *ptr,
end: ptr.offset(len as isize),
end: if cap == 0 {
// can't offset off this pointer, it's not allocated!
*ptr
} else {
ptr.offset(len as isize)
}
}
}
}
@ -635,6 +678,10 @@ impl<T> Vec<T> {
Much better.
# Drain
Let's move on to Drain. Drain is largely the same as IntoIter, except that
@ -674,7 +721,11 @@ impl<T> RawValIter<T> {
unsafe fn new(slice: &[T]) -> Self {
RawValIter {
start: slice.as_ptr(),
end: slice.as_ptr().offset(slice.len() as isize),
end: if slice.len() == 0 {
slice.as_ptr()
} else {
slice.as_ptr().offset(slice.len() as isize)
}
}
}
}
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```
# Handling Zero-Sized Types
It's time. We're going to fight the spectre that is zero-sized types. Safe Rust
@ -781,13 +834,14 @@ zero-sized types. We need to be careful of two things:
* The raw allocator API has undefined behaviour if you pass in 0 for an
allocation size.
* raw pointer offsets are no-ops for zero-sized types, which will break our
C-style pointer iterator
C-style pointer iterator.
Thankfully we abstracted out pointer-iterators and allocating handling into
RawValIter and RawVec respectively. How mysteriously convenient.
## Allocating Zero-Sized Types
So if the allocator API doesn't support zero-sized allocations, what on earth
@ -797,13 +851,457 @@ to be considered to store or load them. This actually extends to `ptr::read` and
`ptr::write`: they won't actually look at the pointer at all. As such we *never* need
to change the pointer.
TODO
Note however that our previous reliance on running out of memory before overflow is
no longer valid with zero-sized types. We must explicitly guard against capacity
overflow for zero-sized types.
Due to our current architecture, all this means is writing 3 guards, one in each
method of RawVec.
```rust
impl<T> RawVec<T> {
fn new() -> Self {
unsafe {
// -1 is usize::MAX. This branch should be stripped at compile time.
let cap = if mem::size_of::<T>() == 0 { -1 } else { 0 };
// heap::EMPTY doubles as "unallocated" and "zero-sized allocation"
RawVec { ptr: Unique::new(heap::EMPTY as *mut T), cap: cap }
}
}
fn grow(&mut self) {
unsafe {
let elem_size = mem::size_of::<T>();
// since we set the capacity to usize::MAX when elem_size is
// 0, getting to here necessarily means the Vec is overfull.
assert!(elem_size != 0, "capacity overflow");
let align = mem::min_align_of::<T>();
let (new_cap, ptr) = if self.cap == 0 {
let ptr = heap::allocate(elem_size, align);
(1, ptr)
} else {
let new_cap = 2 * self.cap;
let ptr = heap::reallocate(*self.ptr as *mut _,
self.cap * elem_size,
new_cap * elem_size,
align);
(new_cap, ptr)
};
// If allocate or reallocate fail, we'll get `null` back
if ptr.is_null() { oom() }
self.ptr = Unique::new(ptr as *mut _);
self.cap = new_cap;
}
}
}
impl<T> Drop for RawVec<T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
let elem_size = mem::size_of::<T>();
// don't free zero-sized allocations, as they were never allocated.
if self.cap != 0 && elem_size != 0 {
let align = mem::min_align_of::<T>();
let num_bytes = elem_size * self.cap;
unsafe {
heap::deallocate(*self.ptr as *mut _, num_bytes, align);
}
}
}
}
```
That's it. We support pushing and popping zero-sized types now. Our iterators
(that aren't provided by slice Deref) are still busted, though.
## Iterating Zero-Sized Types
TODO
Zero-sized offsets are no-ops. This means that our current design will always
initialize `start` and `end` as the same value, and our iterators will yield
nothing. The current solution to this is to cast the pointers to integers,
increment, and then cast them back:
## Advanced Drain
```
impl<T> RawValIter<T> {
unsafe fn new(slice: &[T]) -> Self {
RawValIter {
start: slice.as_ptr(),
end: if mem::size_of::<T>() == 0 {
((slice.as_ptr() as usize) + slice.len()) as *const _
} else if slice.len() == 0 {
slice.as_ptr()
} else {
slice.as_ptr().offset(slice.len() as isize)
}
}
}
}
```
Now we have a different bug. Instead of our iterators not running at all, our
iterators now run *forever*. We need to do the same trick in our iterator impls:
```
impl<T> Iterator for RawValIter<T> {
type Item = T;
fn next(&mut self) -> Option<T> {
if self.start == self.end {
None
} else {
unsafe {
let result = ptr::read(self.start);
self.start = if mem::size_of::<T>() == 0 {
(self.start as usize + 1) as *const _
} else {
self.start.offset(1);
}
Some(result)
}
}
}
fn size_hint(&self) -> (usize, Option<usize>) {
let len = self.end as usize - self.start as usize;
(len, Some(len))
}
}
impl<T> DoubleEndedIterator for RawValIter<T> {
fn next_back(&mut self) -> Option<T> {
if self.start == self.end {
None
} else {
unsafe {
self.end = if mem::size_of::<T>() == 0 {
(self.end as usize - 1) as *const _
} else {
self.end.offset(-1);
}
Some(ptr::read(self.end))
}
}
}
}
```
And that's it. Iteration works!
# Advanced Drain
TODO? Not clear if informative
# The Final Code
```rust
#![feature(unique)]
#![feature(heap_api)]
use std::ptr::{Unique, self};
use std::rt::heap;
use std::mem;
use std::ops::{Deref, DerefMut};
use std::marker::PhantomData;
struct RawVec<T> {
ptr: Unique<T>,
cap: usize,
}
impl<T> RawVec<T> {
fn new() -> Self {
unsafe {
// -1 is usize::MAX. This branch should be stripped at compile time.
let cap = if mem::size_of::<T>() == 0 { -1 } else { 0 };
// heap::EMPTY doubles as "unallocated" and "zero-sized allocation"
RawVec { ptr: Unique::new(heap::EMPTY as *mut T), cap: cap }
}
}
fn grow(&mut self) {
unsafe {
let elem_size = mem::size_of::<T>();
// since we set the capacity to usize::MAX when elem_size is
// 0, getting to here necessarily means the Vec is overfull.
assert!(elem_size != 0, "capacity overflow");
let align = mem::min_align_of::<T>();
let (new_cap, ptr) = if self.cap == 0 {
let ptr = heap::allocate(elem_size, align);
(1, ptr)
} else {
let new_cap = 2 * self.cap;
let ptr = heap::reallocate(*self.ptr as *mut _,
self.cap * elem_size,
new_cap * elem_size,
align);
(new_cap, ptr)
};
// If allocate or reallocate fail, we'll get `null` back
if ptr.is_null() { oom() }
self.ptr = Unique::new(ptr as *mut _);
self.cap = new_cap;
}
}
}
impl<T> Drop for RawVec<T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
let elem_size = mem::size_of::<T>();
if self.cap != 0 && elem_size != 0 {
let align = mem::min_align_of::<T>();
let num_bytes = elem_size * self.cap;
unsafe {
heap::deallocate(*self.ptr as *mut _, num_bytes, align);
}
}
}
}
pub struct Vec<T> {
buf: RawVec<T>,
len: usize,
}
impl<T> Vec<T> {
fn ptr(&self) -> *mut T { *self.buf.ptr }
fn cap(&self) -> usize { self.buf.cap }
pub fn new() -> Self {
Vec { buf: RawVec::new(), len: 0 }
}
pub fn push(&mut self, elem: T) {
if self.len == self.cap() { self.buf.grow(); }
unsafe {
ptr::write(self.ptr().offset(self.len as isize), elem);
}
// Can't fail, we'll OOM first.
self.len += 1;
}
pub fn pop(&mut self) -> Option<T> {
if self.len == 0 {
None
} else {
self.len -= 1;
unsafe {
Some(ptr::read(self.ptr().offset(self.len as isize)))
}
}
}
pub fn insert(&mut self, index: usize, elem: T) {
assert!(index <= self.len, "index out of bounds");
if self.cap() == self.len { self.buf.grow(); }
unsafe {
if index < self.len {
ptr::copy(self.ptr().offset(index as isize),
self.ptr().offset(index as isize + 1),
self.len - index);
}
ptr::write(self.ptr().offset(index as isize), elem);
self.len += 1;
}
}
pub fn remove(&mut self, index: usize) -> T {
assert!(index < self.len, "index out of bounds");
unsafe {
self.len -= 1;
let result = ptr::read(self.ptr().offset(index as isize));
ptr::copy(self.ptr().offset(index as isize + 1),
self.ptr().offset(index as isize),
self.len - index);
result
}
}
pub fn into_iter(self) -> IntoIter<T> {
unsafe {
let iter = RawValIter::new(&self);
let buf = ptr::read(&self.buf);
mem::forget(self);
IntoIter {
iter: iter,
_buf: buf,
}
}
}
pub fn drain(&mut self) -> Drain<T> {
// this is a mem::forget safety thing. If this is forgotten, we just
// leak the whole Vec's contents. Also we need to do this *eventually*
// anyway, so why not do it now?
self.len = 0;
unsafe {
Drain {
iter: RawValIter::new(&self),
vec: PhantomData,
}
}
}
}
impl<T> Drop for Vec<T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
while let Some(_) = self.pop() {}
// allocation is handled by RawVec
}
}
impl<T> Deref for Vec<T> {
type Target = [T];
fn deref(&self) -> &[T] {
unsafe {
::std::slice::from_raw_parts(self.ptr(), self.len)
}
}
}
impl<T> DerefMut for Vec<T> {
fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut [T] {
unsafe {
::std::slice::from_raw_parts_mut(self.ptr(), self.len)
}
}
}
struct RawValIter<T> {
start: *const T,
end: *const T,
}
impl<T> RawValIter<T> {
unsafe fn new(slice: &[T]) -> Self {
RawValIter {
start: slice.as_ptr(),
end: if mem::size_of::<T>() == 0 {
((slice.as_ptr() as usize) + slice.len()) as *const _
} else if slice.len() == 0 {
slice.as_ptr()
} else {
slice.as_ptr().offset(slice.len() as isize)
}
}
}
}
impl<T> Iterator for RawValIter<T> {
type Item = T;
fn next(&mut self) -> Option<T> {
if self.start == self.end {
None
} else {
unsafe {
let result = ptr::read(self.start);
self.start = self.start.offset(1);
Some(result)
}
}
}
fn size_hint(&self) -> (usize, Option<usize>) {
let len = self.end as usize - self.start as usize;
(len, Some(len))
}
}
impl<T> DoubleEndedIterator for RawValIter<T> {
fn next_back(&mut self) -> Option<T> {
if self.start == self.end {
None
} else {
unsafe {
self.end = self.end.offset(-1);
Some(ptr::read(self.end))
}
}
}
}
pub struct IntoIter<T> {
_buf: RawVec<T>, // we don't actually care about this. Just need it to live.
iter: RawValIter<T>,
}
impl<T> Iterator for IntoIter<T> {
type Item = T;
fn next(&mut self) -> Option<T> { self.iter.next() }
fn size_hint(&self) -> (usize, Option<usize>) { self.iter.size_hint() }
}
impl<T> DoubleEndedIterator for IntoIter<T> {
fn next_back(&mut self) -> Option<T> { self.iter.next_back() }
}
impl<T> Drop for IntoIter<T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
for _ in &mut *self {}
}
}
pub struct Drain<'a, T: 'a> {
vec: PhantomData<&'a mut Vec<T>>,
iter: RawValIter<T>,
}
impl<'a, T> Iterator for Drain<'a, T> {
type Item = T;
fn next(&mut self) -> Option<T> { self.iter.next_back() }
fn size_hint(&self) -> (usize, Option<usize>) { self.iter.size_hint() }
}
impl<'a, T> DoubleEndedIterator for Drain<'a, T> {
fn next_back(&mut self) -> Option<T> { self.iter.next_back() }
}
impl<'a, T> Drop for Drain<'a, T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {
// pre-drain the iter
for _ in &mut self.iter {}
}
}
/// Abort the process, we're out of memory!
///
/// In practice this is probably dead code on most OSes
fn oom() {
::std::process::exit(-1);
}
```

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