[clang] [clang] Implement a bitwise_copyable builtin type trait. (PR #86512)

Haojian Wu via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Apr 16 04:49:51 PDT 2024


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@@ -917,6 +917,18 @@ class QualType {
   /// Return true if this is a trivially copyable type (C++0x [basic.types]p9)
   bool isTriviallyCopyableType(const ASTContext &Context) const;
 
+  /// Return true if this is a bitwise copyable type.
+  ///
+  /// This is an extension in clang: bitwise copyable types act as trivially
+  /// copyable types, underlying bytes of bitwise copyable type can be safely
+  /// copied by memcpy or memmove. Clang guarantees that both source and
+  /// destination objects have the same **object** representations after the
+  /// copy, and the lifetime of the destination object implicitly starts.
+  ///
+  /// bitwise copyable types cover a wider range of types, e.g. classes with
+  /// virtual methods.
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hokein wrote:

I made some adjustments to this comment, hopefully it is clearer.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/86512


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