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      1 // Copyright 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #ifndef BASE_STRINGS_STRING16_H_
      6 #define BASE_STRINGS_STRING16_H_
      7 
      8 // WHAT:
      9 // A version of std::basic_string that provides 2-byte characters even when
     10 // wchar_t is not implemented as a 2-byte type. You can access this class as
     11 // string16. We also define char16, which string16 is based upon.
     12 //
     13 // WHY:
     14 // On Windows, wchar_t is 2 bytes, and it can conveniently handle UTF-16/UCS-2
     15 // data. Plenty of existing code operates on strings encoded as UTF-16.
     16 //
     17 // On many other platforms, sizeof(wchar_t) is 4 bytes by default. We can make
     18 // it 2 bytes by using the GCC flag -fshort-wchar. But then std::wstring fails
     19 // at run time, because it calls some functions (like wcslen) that come from
     20 // the system's native C library -- which was built with a 4-byte wchar_t!
     21 // It's wasteful to use 4-byte wchar_t strings to carry UTF-16 data, and it's
     22 // entirely improper on those systems where the encoding of wchar_t is defined
     23 // as UTF-32.
     24 //
     25 // Here, we define string16, which is similar to std::wstring but replaces all
     26 // libc functions with custom, 2-byte-char compatible routines. It is capable
     27 // of carrying UTF-16-encoded data.
     28 
     29 #include <stddef.h>
     30 #include <stdint.h>
     31 #include <stdio.h>
     32 #include <string>
     33 
     34 #include "base/base_export.h"
     35 #include "build/build_config.h"
     36 
     37 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF16)
     38 
     39 namespace base {
     40 
     41 typedef wchar_t char16;
     42 typedef std::wstring string16;
     43 typedef std::char_traits<wchar_t> string16_char_traits;
     44 
     45 }  // namespace base
     46 
     47 #elif defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
     48 
     49 namespace base {
     50 
     51 typedef uint16_t char16;
     52 
     53 // char16 versions of the functions required by string16_char_traits; these
     54 // are based on the wide character functions of similar names ("w" or "wcs"
     55 // instead of "c16").
     56 BASE_EXPORT int c16memcmp(const char16* s1, const char16* s2, size_t n);
     57 BASE_EXPORT size_t c16len(const char16* s);
     58 BASE_EXPORT const char16* c16memchr(const char16* s, char16 c, size_t n);
     59 BASE_EXPORT char16* c16memmove(char16* s1, const char16* s2, size_t n);
     60 BASE_EXPORT char16* c16memcpy(char16* s1, const char16* s2, size_t n);
     61 BASE_EXPORT char16* c16memset(char16* s, char16 c, size_t n);
     62 
     63 struct string16_char_traits {
     64   typedef char16 char_type;
     65   typedef int int_type;
     66 
     67   // int_type needs to be able to hold each possible value of char_type, and in
     68   // addition, the distinct value of eof().
     69   static_assert(sizeof(int_type) > sizeof(char_type),
     70                 "int must be larger than 16 bits wide");
     71 
     72   typedef std::streamoff off_type;
     73   typedef mbstate_t state_type;
     74   typedef std::fpos<state_type> pos_type;
     75 
     76   static void assign(char_type& c1, const char_type& c2) {
     77     c1 = c2;
     78   }
     79 
     80   static bool eq(const char_type& c1, const char_type& c2) {
     81     return c1 == c2;
     82   }
     83   static bool lt(const char_type& c1, const char_type& c2) {
     84     return c1 < c2;
     85   }
     86 
     87   static int compare(const char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n) {
     88     return c16memcmp(s1, s2, n);
     89   }
     90 
     91   static size_t length(const char_type* s) {
     92     return c16len(s);
     93   }
     94 
     95   static const char_type* find(const char_type* s, size_t n,
     96                                const char_type& a) {
     97     return c16memchr(s, a, n);
     98   }
     99 
    100   static char_type* move(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n) {
    101     return c16memmove(s1, s2, n);
    102   }
    103 
    104   static char_type* copy(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n) {
    105     return c16memcpy(s1, s2, n);
    106   }
    107 
    108   static char_type* assign(char_type* s, size_t n, char_type a) {
    109     return c16memset(s, a, n);
    110   }
    111 
    112   static int_type not_eof(const int_type& c) {
    113     return eq_int_type(c, eof()) ? 0 : c;
    114   }
    115 
    116   static char_type to_char_type(const int_type& c) {
    117     return char_type(c);
    118   }
    119 
    120   static int_type to_int_type(const char_type& c) {
    121     return int_type(c);
    122   }
    123 
    124   static bool eq_int_type(const int_type& c1, const int_type& c2) {
    125     return c1 == c2;
    126   }
    127 
    128   static int_type eof() {
    129     return static_cast<int_type>(EOF);
    130   }
    131 };
    132 
    133 typedef std::basic_string<char16, base::string16_char_traits> string16;
    134 
    135 BASE_EXPORT extern std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& out,
    136                                             const string16& str);
    137 
    138 // This is required by googletest to print a readable output on test failures.
    139 BASE_EXPORT extern void PrintTo(const string16& str, std::ostream* out);
    140 
    141 }  // namespace base
    142 
    143 // The string class will be explicitly instantiated only once, in string16.cc.
    144 //
    145 // std::basic_string<> in GNU libstdc++ contains a static data member,
    146 // _S_empty_rep_storage, to represent empty strings.  When an operation such
    147 // as assignment or destruction is performed on a string, causing its existing
    148 // data member to be invalidated, it must not be freed if this static data
    149 // member is being used.  Otherwise, it counts as an attempt to free static
    150 // (and not allocated) data, which is a memory error.
    151 //
    152 // Generally, due to C++ template magic, _S_empty_rep_storage will be marked
    153 // as a coalesced symbol, meaning that the linker will combine multiple
    154 // instances into a single one when generating output.
    155 //
    156 // If a string class is used by multiple shared libraries, a problem occurs.
    157 // Each library will get its own copy of _S_empty_rep_storage.  When strings
    158 // are passed across a library boundary for alteration or destruction, memory
    159 // errors will result.  GNU libstdc++ contains a configuration option,
    160 // --enable-fully-dynamic-string (_GLIBCXX_FULLY_DYNAMIC_STRING), which
    161 // disables the static data member optimization, but it's a good optimization
    162 // and non-STL code is generally at the mercy of the system's STL
    163 // configuration.  Fully-dynamic strings are not the default for GNU libstdc++
    164 // libstdc++ itself or for the libstdc++ installations on the systems we care
    165 // about, such as Mac OS X and relevant flavors of Linux.
    166 //
    167 // See also http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24196 .
    168 //
    169 // To avoid problems, string classes need to be explicitly instantiated only
    170 // once, in exactly one library.  All other string users see it via an "extern"
    171 // declaration.  This is precisely how GNU libstdc++ handles
    172 // std::basic_string<char> (string) and std::basic_string<wchar_t> (wstring).
    173 //
    174 // This also works around a Mac OS X linker bug in ld64-85.2.1 (Xcode 3.1.2),
    175 // in which the linker does not fully coalesce symbols when dead code
    176 // stripping is enabled.  This bug causes the memory errors described above
    177 // to occur even when a std::basic_string<> does not cross shared library
    178 // boundaries, such as in statically-linked executables.
    179 //
    180 // TODO(mark): File this bug with Apple and update this note with a bug number.
    181 
    182 extern template
    183 class BASE_EXPORT std::basic_string<base::char16, base::string16_char_traits>;
    184 
    185 #endif  // WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32
    186 
    187 #endif  // BASE_STRINGS_STRING16_H_
    188