[libcxx-commits] [libcxx] [libcxx] Use alias for detecting overriden function (PR #114961)

[Louis Dionne via libcxx-commits]

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@@ -42,93 +42,74 @@
 // -------------------
 //
 // Let's say we want to check whether a weak function `f` has been overridden by the user.
-// The general mechanism works by placing `f`'s definition (in the libc++ built library)
-// inside a special section, which we do using the `__section__` attribute via the
-// _LIBCPP_MAKE_OVERRIDABLE_FUNCTION_DETECTABLE macro.
+// The general mechanism works by defining a symbol `f_impl__` and a weak alias `f` via the
+// _LIBCPP_OVERRIDABLE_FUNCTION macro.
 //
 // Then, when comes the time to check whether the function has been overridden, we take
-// the address of the function and we check whether it falls inside the special function
-// we created. This can be done by finding pointers to the start and the end of the section
-// (which is done differently for ELF and Mach-O), and then checking whether `f` falls
-// within those bounds. If it falls within those bounds, then `f` is still inside the
-// special section and so it is the version we defined in the libc++ built library, i.e.
-// it was not overridden. Otherwise, it was overridden by the user because it falls
-// outside of the section.
+// the address of the function `f` and we check whether it is different from `f_impl__`.
+// If so it means the function was overriden by the user.
 //
 // Important note
 // --------------
 //
-// This mechanism should never be used outside of the libc++ built library. In particular,
-// attempting to use this within the libc++ headers will not work at all because we don't
-// want to be defining special sections inside user's executables which use our headers.
+// This mechanism should never be used outside of the libc++ built library.
 //
 
 #if defined(_LIBCPP_OBJECT_FORMAT_MACHO)
 
-#  define _LIBCPP_CAN_DETECT_OVERRIDDEN_FUNCTION 1
-#  define _LIBCPP_MAKE_OVERRIDABLE_FUNCTION_DETECTABLE                                                                 \
-    __attribute__((__section__("__TEXT,__lcxx_override,regular,pure_instructions")))
-
 _LIBCPP_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_STD
-template <class _Ret, class... _Args>
-_LIBCPP_HIDE_FROM_ABI bool __is_function_overridden(_Ret (*__fptr)(_Args...)) noexcept {
-  // Declare two dummy bytes and give them these special `__asm` values. These values are
-  // defined by the linker, which means that referring to `&__lcxx_override_start` will
-  // effectively refer to the address where the section starts (and same for the end).
-  extern char __lcxx_override_start __asm("section$start$__TEXT$__lcxx_override");
-  extern char __lcxx_override_end __asm("section$end$__TEXT$__lcxx_override");
-
-  // Now get a uintptr_t out of these locations, and out of the function pointer.
-  uintptr_t __start = reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(&__lcxx_override_start);
-  uintptr_t __end   = reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(&__lcxx_override_end);
-  uintptr_t __ptr   = reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(__fptr);
-
-#  if __has_feature(ptrauth_calls)
-  // We must pass a void* to ptrauth_strip since it only accepts a pointer type. Also, in particular,
-  // we must NOT pass a function pointer, otherwise we will strip the function pointer, and then attempt
-  // to authenticate and re-sign it when casting it to a uintptr_t again, which will fail because we just
-  // stripped the function pointer. See rdar://122927845.
-  __ptr = reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(ptrauth_strip(reinterpret_cast<void*>(__ptr), ptrauth_key_function_pointer));
-#  endif
-
-  // Finally, the function was overridden if it falls outside of the section's bounds.
-  return __ptr < __start || __ptr > __end;
-}
-_LIBCPP_END_NAMESPACE_STD
 
-// The NVPTX linker cannot create '__start/__stop' sections.
-#elif defined(_LIBCPP_OBJECT_FORMAT_ELF) && !defined(__NVPTX__)
+template <typename _Func>
+constexpr _Func* __overload_of(_Func* f) { return f; }
 
-#  define _LIBCPP_CAN_DETECT_OVERRIDDEN_FUNCTION 1
-#  define _LIBCPP_MAKE_OVERRIDABLE_FUNCTION_DETECTABLE __attribute__((__section__("__lcxx_override")))
+template <auto _Func>
+constexpr bool __is_function_overridden();
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ldionne wrote:

```suggestion
template <auto _Func>
_LIBCPP_HIDE_FROM_ABI constexpr bool __is_function_overridden();
```

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/114961