What's happened with CMutablePointer and CConstPointer in Xcode Beta3? - xcode

What's happened with CMutablePointer and CConstPointer in Xcode Beta3?
Code that successfully compiles in Beta2 fails with the errors:
Use of undeclared type 'CMutablePointer'

Use UnsafePointer and ConstUnsafePointer respectively.
From the Release Notes:
APIs imported from C that use C pointers are now imported with a much simpler API type
structure which is more predictable, preserves const mutability in more cases, and preserves
__autoreleased pointer information.  Now you will see UnsafePointer,
ConstUnsafePointer, AutoreleasingUnsafePointer, etc.  Function pointers are also
imported now, and can be referenced and passed around.  However, you cannot call a C
function pointer or convert a closure to C function pointer type.!

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Does CLion possible evaluate a function when debugging Rust code?

A snip of Rust code:
pub fn main() {
let a = "hello";
let b = a.len();
let c =b;
println!("len:{}",c)
}
When debugging in CLion, Is it possible to evaluate a function? For example, debug the code step by step, now the code is running to the last line println!... and the current step stops here, by adding the expression a.len() to the watch a variable window, the IDE can't evaluate the a.len(). It says: error: no field named len
This is the same reason you can't make conditional breakpoints for Rust code:
Can't create a conditional breakpoint in VSCode-LLDB with Rust
I hope, I'm not too late to answer this, but with both lldb and gdb, Rust debugging capability is currently rather constrained.
Expressions that are straightforward work; anything complex is likely to produce issues.
My observations from rust-lldb trying this, are that only a small portion of Rust is understood by the expression parser.
There is no support for macros.
Non-used functions are not included in the final binary.
For instance, since that method is not included in the binary, you are unable to execute capacity() on the HashMap in the debugger.
Methods must be named as follows:
struct value.method(&struct value)
There is no technique that I've discovered to call monomorphized functions on generic structs (like HashMap).
For example, "hello" is a const char [5] including the trailing NUL byte. String constants "..." in lldb expressions are produced as C-style string constants.
Therefore, they are not valid functions

iterator error/conflict on Android with push_back (FMX, C++) [duplicate]

I have some simple C++ code which won't be compiled by the Clang based C++11 compiler bccaarm of C++ Builder 10.1 Berlin.
This is the code:
TComponent* Comp = new TComponent(this);
std::vector<TComponent*> Comps;
Comps.push_back(Comp);
And this is the error:
[bccaarm error] stl_iterator.h(963): rvalue reference to type
'value_type' (aka 'System: classes::TComponent * __strong') can not be
bound to lvalue of type '__borland_class * isTObj __strong' (aka
'System::Classes::TComponent * __strong')
The compiler stops at line 963 in the file stl_iterator.h:
The other C++ compilers bcc32 and bcc32c(also Clang based) have no problems with this code.
When Compis not from type TComponent or another descendant from TObject the code compiles without any problem.
I have no idea what is wrong with this code and why there is a problem with R and L values...
Does anybody know what to do here?
To get the above code compiled the vector type has to be defined as an unsafe pointer.
TComponent* Comp = new TComponent(this);
std::vector<__unsafe TComponent*> Comps;
Comps.push_back(Comp);
I openened a support case for an other problem I had. The embarcadero support gave me the following information which I applied to this problem and it seems to work:
__unsafe tells the compiler that object lifetimes will be handled and no ARC code is generated for the objects
More about this topic:
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Berlin/en/Automatic_Reference_Counting_in_C%2B%2B#weak_and_unsafe_pointers

memcpy from one type to another type. How do we access the destination afterwards?

uint32_t u32 = 0;
uint16_t u16[2];
static_assert(sizeof(u32) == sizeof(u16), "");
memcpy(u16, &u32, sizeof(u32)); // defined?
// if defined, how to we access the data from here on?
Is this defined behaviour? And, if so, what type of pointer may we use to access the target data after the memcpy?
Must we use uint16_t*, because that suitable for the declared type of u16?
Or must we use uint32_t*, because the type of the source data (the source data copied from by memcpy) is uint_32?
(Personally interested in C++11/C++14. But a discussion of related languages like C would be interesting also.)
Is this defined behavio[u]r?
Yes. memcpying into a pod is well-defined and you ensured that the sizing is the correct.
Must we use uint16_t*, because that suitable for the declared type of u16?
Yes, of course. u16 is an array of two uint16_ts so it must be accessed as such. Accessing it via a uint32_t* would be undefined behavior by the strict-aliasing rule.
It doesn't matter what the source type was. What matters is that you have an object of type uint16_t[2].
On the other hand, this:
uint32_t p;
new (&p) uint16_t(42);
std::cout << p;
is undefined behavior, because now there is an object of a different type whose lifetime has begin at &p and we're accessing it through the wrong type.
The C++ standard delegates to C standard:
The contents and meaning of the header <cstring> are the same as the C standard library header <string.h>.
The C standard specifies:
7.24.1/3 For all functions in this subclause, each character shall be interpreted as if it had the type unsigned char (and therefore every possible object representation is valid and has a different value).
So, to answer your question: Yes, the behaviour is defined.
Yes, uint16_t* is appropriate because uint16_t is the type of the object.
No, the type of the source doesn't matter.
C++ standard doesn't specify such thing as object without declared type or how it would behave. I interpret that to mean that the effective type is implementation defined for objects with no declared type.
Even in C, the source doesn't matter in this case. A more complete version of quote from C standard (draft, N1570) that you are concerned about, emphasis mine:
6.5/6 [...] If a value is copied into an object having no declared type using memcpy or memmove, or is copied as an array of character type, then the effective type of the modified object for that access and for subsequent accesses that do not modify the value is the effective type of the object from which the value is copied, if it has one. [...]
This rule doesn't apply, because objects in u16 do have a declared type

__verify_pcpu_ptr function in Linux Kernel - What does it do?

#define __verify_pcpu_ptr(ptr)
do {
const void __percpu *__vpp_verify = (typeof((ptr) + 0))NULL;
(void)__vpp_verify;
} while (0)
#define VERIFY_PERCPU_PTR(__p)
({
__verify_pcpu_ptr(__p);
(typeof(*(__p)) __kernel __force *)(__p);
})
What do these two functions do? What are they used for? How do they work?
Thanks.
This is part of the scheme used by per_cpu_ptr to support a pointer that gets a different value for each CPU. There are two motives here:
Ensure that accesses to the per-cpu data structure are only made via the per_cpu_ptr macro.
Ensure that the argument given to the macro is of the correct type.
Restating, this ensures that (a) you don't accidentally access a per-cpu pointer without the macro (which would only reference the first of N members), and (b) that you don't inadvertently use the macro to cast a pointer that is not of the correct declared type to one that is.
By using these macros, you get the support of the compiler in type-checking without any runtime overhead. The compiler is smart enough to eventually recognize that all of these complex machinations result in no observable state change, yet the type-checking will have been performed. So you get the benefit of the type-checking, but no actual executable code will have been emitted by the compiler.

unordered_map pointing to vector

I have some custom classes: LocationInfo (information about a location), and Coordinates (two ints specifying an X & Y grid location). I'm using an unordered_map to key a Coordinates object to a vector of LocationInfo objects:
typedef std::vector<LocationInfo> LocationVector;
...
std::unordered_map<Coordinates, LocationVector> data;
// I also tried:
// std::unordered_map<Coordinates, std::vector<LocationInfo> > data;
Upon linking, I get a very long error (two actually) that ends with:
undefined reference to `std::hash<Coordinates>::operator()(Coordinates) const'
I'm using g++4.6.1 with the -std=c++0x option on Ubuntu 11.10. After reading some posts on here, I originally thought there might be an issue requiring me to explicitly use typename before one of the types in the declaration. But I've only seen a need for that when using templates that confuse the compiler. I added some in just in case, and that only made matters worse.
You have to implement a custom hash functor for your types.
Look here unordered_map hash function c++ to see how it can be done.

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