With this commit, <AK/Format.h> has a more supportive role and isn't
used directly.
Essentially, there now is a public 'vformat' function ('v' for vector)
which takes already type erased parameters. The name is choosen to
indicate that this function behaves similar to C-style functions taking
a va_list equivalent.
The interface for frontend users are now 'String::formatted' and
'StringBuilder::appendff'.
Two things I hate about C++:
1. 'int', 'signed int' and 'unsigned int' are two distinct types while
'char, 'signed char' and 'unsigned char' are *three* distinct types.
This is because 'signed int' is an alias for 'int' but 'signed char'
can't be an alias for 'char' because on some weird systems 'char' is
unsigned.
One might think why not do it the other way around, make 'int' an
alias for 'signed int' and 'char' an alias for whatever that is on
the platform, or make 'char' signed on all platforms. But who am I
to ask?
2. 'unsigned long' and 'unsigned long long' are always different types,
even if both are 64 bit numbers.
This commit fixes a few bugs that coming from this.
See Also: 1b3169f405.
This function is not avaliable in the kernel.
In the future it would be nice to have some sort of <charconv> header
that does this for all integer types and then call it in strtoull and et
cetera.
The difference would be that this function say 'from_chars' would return
an Optional and not just interpret anything invalid as zero.
There are three classes avaliable that share the functionality of
BufferStream:
1. InputMemoryStream is for reading from static buffers. Example:
Bytes input = /* ... */;
InputMemoryStream stream { input };
LittleEndian<u32> little_endian_value;
input >> little_endian_value;
u32 host_endian_value;
input >> host_endian_value;
SomeComplexStruct complex_struct;
input >> Bytes { &complex_struct, sizeof(complex_struct) };
2. OutputMemoryStream is for writing to static buffers. Example:
Array<u8, 4096> buffer;
OutputMemoryStream stream;
stream << LittleEndian<u32> { 42 };
stream << ReadonlyBytes { &complex_struct, sizeof(complex_struct) };
foo(stream.bytes());
3. DuplexMemoryStream for writing to dynamic buffers, can also be used
as an intermediate buffer by reading from it directly. Example:
DuplexMemoryStream stream;
stream << NetworkOrdered<u32> { 13 };
stream << NetowkrOrdered<u64> { 22 };
NetworkOrdered<u32> value;
stream >> value;
ASSERT(value == 13);
foo(stream.copy_into_contiguous_buffer());
Unlike BufferStream these streams do not use a fixed endianness
(BufferStream used little endian) these have to be explicitly specified.
There are helper types in <AK/Endian.h>.
OutputMemoryStream was originally a proxy for DuplexMemoryStream that
did not expose any reading API.
Now I need to add another class that is like OutputMemoryStream but only
for static buffers. My first idea was to make OutputMemoryStream do that
too, but I think it's much better to have a distinct class for that.
I originally wanted to call that class FixedOutputMemoryStream but that
name is really cumbersome and it's a bit unintuitive because
InputMemoryStream is already reading from a fixed buffer.
So let's just use DuplexMemoryStream instead of OutputMemoryStream for
any dynamic stuff and create a new OutputMemoryStream for static
buffers.
Consider the following snippet:
void foo(InputStream& stream) {
if(!stream.eof()) {
u8 byte;
stream >> byte;
}
}
There is a very subtle bug in this snippet, for some input streams eof()
might return false even if no more data can be read. In this case an
error flag would be set on the stream.
Until now I've always ensured that this is not the case, but this made
the implementation of eof() unnecessarily complicated.
InputFileStream::eof had to keep a ByteBuffer around just to make this
possible. That meant a ton of unnecessary copies just to get a reliable
eof().
In most cases it isn't actually necessary to have a reliable eof()
implementation.
In most other cases a reliable eof() is avaliable anyways because in
some cases like InputMemoryStream it is very easy to implement.
This makes PrintfImplementation usable with any sequence, provided that
a 'next element' function can be written for it.
Does not affect the behaviour of printf() and co.
It wasn't actually possible to call
const LogStream& operator<<(const LogStream&, ReadonlyBytes);
because it was shadowed by
template<typename T>
const LogStream& operator<<(const LogStream& stream, Span<T> span);
not sure how I didn't find this when I added the overload.
It would be possible to use SFINAE to disable the other overload,
however, I think it is better to use a different method entirely because
the output can be very verbose:
void dump_bytes(ReadonlyBytes);
Leverage constexpr and __builtin_ffs for Bitmap::find_first. Also add
a variant Bitmap::find_one_anywhere that can start scanning at a
provided hint.
Also, merge Bitmap::fill_range into the already existing Bitmap::set_range
The streaming operator doesn't short-circuit, consider the following
snippet:
void foo(InputStream& stream) {
int a, b;
stream >> a >> b;
}
If the first read fails, the second is called regardless. It should be
well defined what happens in this case: nothing.
