Currently std::expected can have some padding bytes in its tail due to
[[no_unique_address]]. Those padding bytes can be used by other objects.
For example, in the current implementation:
sizeof(std::expected<std::optional<int>, bool>) ==
sizeof(std::expected<std::expected<std::optional<int>, bool>, bool>)
As a result, the data layout of an
std::expected<std::expected<std::optional<int>, bool>, bool>
can look like this:
+-- optional "has value" flag
| +--padding
/---int---\ | |
00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
| |
| +- "outer" expected "has value" flag
|
+- expected "has value" flag
This is problematic because `emplace()`ing the "inner" expected can not
only overwrite the "inner" expected "has value" flag (issue #68552) but
also the tail padding where other objects might live.
This patch fixes the problem by ensuring that std::expected has no tail
padding, which is achieved by conditional usage of [[no_unique_address]]
based on the tail padding that this would create.
This is an ABI breaking change because the following property changes:
sizeof(std::expected<std::optional<int>, bool>) <
sizeof(std::expected<std::expected<std::optional<int>, bool>, bool>)
Before the change, this relation didn't hold. After the change, the relation
does hold, which means that the size of std::expected in these cases increases
after this patch. The data layout will change in the following cases where
tail padding can be reused by other objects:
class foo : std::expected<std::optional<int>, bool> {
bool b;
};
or using [[no_unique_address]]:
struct foo {
[[no_unique_address]] std::expected<std::optional<int>, bool> e;
bool b;
};
The vendor communication is handled in #70820.
Fixes: #70494
Co-authored-by: philnik777 <nikolasklauser@berlin.de>
Co-authored-by: Louis Dionne <ldionne.2@gmail.com>
I've structured this into a series of commits for even easier reviewing,
if that helps. I could easily split this up into separate PRs if
desired, but as this is low-risk with simple edits, I thought one PR
would be easiest.
* Drop unnecessary semicolons after function definitions.
* Cleanup comment typos.
* Cleanup `static_assert` typos.
* Cleanup test code typos.
+ There should be no functional changes, assuming I've changed all
occurrences.
* ~~Fix massive test code typos.~~
+ This was a real problem, but needed more surgery. I reverted those
changes here, and @philnik777 is fixing this properly with #73444.
* clang-formatting as requested by the CI.
The calls to std::construct_at might overwrite the previously set
__has_value_ flag in the case where the flag is overlapping with
the actual value or error being stored (since we use [[no_unique_address]]).
To fix this issue, this patch ensures that we initialize the
__has_value_ flag after we call std::construct_at.
Fixes#68552
Since LLVM 17 has been branched and is on the verge of being released,
we can drop the CI job that tests against Clang 15. I think the number
of cherry-picks to `release/17.x` will be a lot smaller now, so keeping
a Clang 15 job around for that purpose seems unnecessary.
As a fly-by, this patch also removes some Clang 15 workarounds and test
suite annotations as we usually do. It also removes some slightly older
gcc test suite annotations that were missed.
AppleClang 15 was released on September 18th and is now stable. Per our
policy, we're bumping the supported AppleClang compiler to the latest
release. This allows cleaning up the test suite, but most importantly
unblocking various other patches that are blocked on bumping the
compiler requirements.
