base / no_destructor.h [blame]

// Copyright 2018 The Chromium Authors
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#ifndef BASE_NO_DESTRUCTOR_H_
#define BASE_NO_DESTRUCTOR_H_

#include <new>
#include <type_traits>
#include <utility>

namespace base {

// Helper type to create a function-local static variable of type `T` when `T`
// has a non-trivial destructor. Storing a `T` in a `base::NoDestructor<T>` will
// prevent `~T()` from running, even when the variable goes out of scope.
//
// Useful when a variable has static storage duration but its type has a
// non-trivial destructor. Chromium bans global constructors and destructors:
// using a function-local static variable prevents the former, while using
// `base::NoDestructor<T>` prevents the latter.
//
// ## Caveats
//
// - Must not be used for locals or fields; by definition, this does not run
//   destructors, and this will likely lead to memory leaks and other
//   surprising and undesirable behaviour.
//
// - If `T` is not constexpr constructible, must be a function-local static
//   variable, since a global `NoDestructor<T>` will still generate a static
//   initializer.
//
// - If `T` is constinit constructible, may be used as a global, but mark the
//   global `constinit`.
//
// - If the data is rarely used, consider creating it on demand rather than
//   caching it for the lifetime of the program. Though `base::NoDestructor<T>`
//   does not heap allocate, the compiler still reserves space in bss for
//   storing `T`, which costs memory at runtime.
//
// - If `T` is trivially destructible, do not use `base::NoDestructor<T>`:
//
//     const uint64_t GetUnstableSessionSeed() {
//       // No need to use `base::NoDestructor<T>` as `uint64_t` is trivially
//       // destructible and does not require a global destructor.
//       static const uint64_t kSessionSeed = base::RandUint64();
//       return kSessionSeed;
//     }
//
// ## Example Usage
//
// const std::string& GetDefaultText() {
//   // Required since `static const std::string` requires a global destructor.
//   static const base::NoDestructor<std::string> s("Hello world!");
//   return *s;
// }
//
// More complex initialization using a lambda:
//
// const std::string& GetRandomNonce() {
//   // `nonce` is initialized with random data the first time this function is
//   // called, but its value is fixed thereafter.
//   static const base::NoDestructor<std::string> nonce([] {
//     std::string s(16);
//     crypto::RandString(s.data(), s.size());
//     return s;
//   }());
//   return *nonce;
// }
//
// ## Thread safety
//
// Initialisation of function-local static variables is thread-safe since C++11.
// The standard guarantees that:
//
// - function-local static variables will be initialised the first time
//   execution passes through the declaration.
//
// - if another thread's execution concurrently passes through the declaration
//   in the middle of initialisation, that thread will wait for the in-progress
//   initialisation to complete.
template <typename T>
class NoDestructor {
 public:
  static_assert(!(std::is_trivially_constructible_v<T> &&
                  std::is_trivially_destructible_v<T>),
                "T is trivially constructible and destructible; please use a "
                "constinit object of type T directly instead");

  static_assert(
      !std::is_trivially_destructible_v<T>,
      "T is trivially destructible; please use a function-local static "
      "of type T directly instead");

  // Not constexpr; just write static constexpr T x = ...; if the value should
  // be a constexpr.
  template <typename... Args>
  explicit NoDestructor(Args&&... args) {
    new (storage_) T(std::forward<Args>(args)...);
  }

  // Allows copy and move construction of the contained type, to allow
  // construction from an initializer list, e.g. for std::vector.
  explicit NoDestructor(const T& x) { new (storage_) T(x); }
  explicit NoDestructor(T&& x) { new (storage_) T(std::move(x)); }

  NoDestructor(const NoDestructor&) = delete;
  NoDestructor& operator=(const NoDestructor&) = delete;

  ~NoDestructor() = default;

  const T& operator*() const { return *get(); }
  T& operator*() { return *get(); }

  const T* operator->() const { return get(); }
  T* operator->() { return get(); }

  const T* get() const { return reinterpret_cast<const T*>(storage_); }
  T* get() { return reinterpret_cast<T*>(storage_); }

 private:
  alignas(T) char storage_[sizeof(T)];

#if defined(LEAK_SANITIZER)
  // TODO(crbug.com/40562930): This is a hack to work around the fact
  // that LSan doesn't seem to treat NoDestructor as a root for reachability
  // analysis. This means that code like this:
  //   static base::NoDestructor<std::vector<int>> v({1, 2, 3});
  // is considered a leak. Using the standard leak sanitizer annotations to
  // suppress leaks doesn't work: std::vector is implicitly constructed before
  // calling the base::NoDestructor constructor.
  //
  // Unfortunately, I haven't been able to demonstrate this issue in simpler
  // reproductions: until that's resolved, hold an explicit pointer to the
  // placement-new'd object in leak sanitizer mode to help LSan realize that
  // objects allocated by the contained type are still reachable.
  T* storage_ptr_ = reinterpret_cast<T*>(storage_);
#endif  // defined(LEAK_SANITIZER)
};

}  // namespace base

#endif  // BASE_NO_DESTRUCTOR_H_