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8
9#ifndef _LIBCPP___TYPE_TRAITS_IS_ALWAYS_BITCASTABLE_H
10#define _LIBCPP___TYPE_TRAITS_IS_ALWAYS_BITCASTABLE_H
11
12#include <__config>
13#include <__type_traits/integral_constant.h>
14#include <__type_traits/is_integral.h>
15#include <__type_traits/is_object.h>
16#include <__type_traits/is_same.h>
17#include <__type_traits/is_trivially_copyable.h>
18#include <__type_traits/remove_cv.h>
19
20#if !defined(_LIBCPP_HAS_NO_PRAGMA_SYSTEM_HEADER)
21#  pragma GCC system_header
22#endif
23
24_LIBCPP_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_STD
25
26// Checks whether an object of type `From` can always be bit-cast to an object of type `To` and represent a valid value
27// of type `To`. In other words, `From` and `To` have the same value representation and the set of values of `From` is
28// a subset of the set of values of `To`.
29//
30// Note that types that cannot be assigned to each other using built-in assignment (e.g. arrays) might still be
31// considered bit-castable.
32template <class _From, class _To>
33struct __is_always_bitcastable {
34  using _UnqualFrom = __remove_cv_t<_From>;
35  using _UnqualTo = __remove_cv_t<_To>;
36
37  static const bool value =
38    // First, the simple case -- `From` and `To` are the same object type.
39    (is_same<_UnqualFrom, _UnqualTo>::value && is_trivially_copyable<_UnqualFrom>::value) ||
40
41    // Beyond the simple case, we say that one type is "always bit-castable" to another if:
42    // - (1) `From` and `To` have the same value representation, and in addition every possible value of `From` has
43    //   a corresponding value in the `To` type (in other words, the set of values of `To` is a superset of the set of
44    //   values of `From`);
45    // - (2) When the corresponding values are not the same value (as, for example, between an unsigned and a signed
46    //   integer, where a large positive value of the unsigned integer corresponds to a negative value in the signed
47    //   integer type), the value of `To` that results from a bitwise copy of `From` is the same what would be produced
48    //   by the built-in assignment (if it were defined for the two types, to which there are minor exceptions, e.g.
49    //   built-in arrays).
50    //
51    // In practice, that means:
52    // - all integral types (except `bool`, see below) -- that is, character types and `int` types, both signed and
53    //   unsigned...
54    // - as well as arrays of such types...
55    // - ...that have the same size.
56    //
57    // Other trivially-copyable types can't be validly bit-cast outside of their own type:
58    // - floating-point types normally have different sizes and thus aren't bit-castable between each other (fails #1);
59    // - integral types and floating-point types use different representations, so for example bit-casting an integral
60    //   `1` to `float` results in a very small less-than-one value, unlike built-in assignment that produces `1.0`
61    //   (fails #2);
62    // - booleans normally use only a single bit of their object representation; bit-casting an integer to a boolean
63    //   will result in a boolean object with an incorrect representation, which is undefined behavior (fails #2).
64    //   Bit-casting from a boolean into an integer, however, is valid;
65    // - enumeration types may have different ranges of possible values (fails #1);
66    // - for pointers, it is not guaranteed that pointers to different types use the same set of values to represent
67    //   addresses, and the conversion results are explicitly unspecified for types with different alignments
68    //   (fails #1);
69    // - for structs and unions it is impossible to determine whether the set of values of one of them is a subset of
70    //   the other (fails #1);
71    // - there is no need to consider `nullptr_t` for practical purposes.
72    (
73      sizeof(_From) == sizeof(_To) &&
74      is_integral<_From>::value &&
75      is_integral<_To>::value &&
76      !is_same<_UnqualTo, bool>::value
77    );
78};
79
80_LIBCPP_END_NAMESPACE_STD
81
82#endif // _LIBCPP___TYPE_TRAITS_IS_ALWAYS_BITCASTABLE_H
83