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1 // Copyright (c) 2006-2008 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_STRING16_H_
6 #define BASE_STRING16_H_
7 #pragma once
8 
9 // WHAT:
10 // A version of std::basic_string that provides 2-byte characters even when
11 // wchar_t is not implemented as a 2-byte type. You can access this class as
12 // string16. We also define char16, which string16 is based upon.
13 //
14 // WHY:
15 // On Windows, wchar_t is 2 bytes, and it can conveniently handle UTF-16/UCS-2
16 // data. Plenty of existing code operates on strings encoded as UTF-16.
17 //
18 // On many other platforms, sizeof(wchar_t) is 4 bytes by default. We can make
19 // it 2 bytes by using the GCC flag -fshort-wchar. But then std::wstring fails
20 // at run time, because it calls some functions (like wcslen) that come from
21 // the system's native C library -- which was built with a 4-byte wchar_t!
22 // It's wasteful to use 4-byte wchar_t strings to carry UTF-16 data, and it's
23 // entirely improper on those systems where the encoding of wchar_t is defined
24 // as UTF-32.
25 //
26 // Here, we define string16, which is similar to std::wstring but replaces all
27 // libc functions with custom, 2-byte-char compatible routines. It is capable
28 // of carrying UTF-16-encoded data.
29 
30 #include <stdio.h>
31 #include <string>
32 
33 #include "base/base_api.h"
34 #include "base/basictypes.h"
35 
36 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF16)
37 
38 typedef wchar_t char16;
39 typedef std::wstring string16;
40 
41 #elif defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
42 
43 typedef uint16 char16;
44 
45 namespace base {
46 
47 // char16 versions of the functions required by string16_char_traits; these
48 // are based on the wide character functions of similar names ("w" or "wcs"
49 // instead of "c16").
50 BASE_API int c16memcmp(const char16* s1, const char16* s2, size_t n);
51 BASE_API size_t c16len(const char16* s);
52 BASE_API const char16* c16memchr(const char16* s, char16 c, size_t n);
53 BASE_API char16* c16memmove(char16* s1, const char16* s2, size_t n);
54 BASE_API char16* c16memcpy(char16* s1, const char16* s2, size_t n);
55 BASE_API char16* c16memset(char16* s, char16 c, size_t n);
56 
57 struct
58 #ifdef ANDROID
59 BASE_API
60 #endif
61 string16_char_traits {
62   typedef char16 char_type;
63   typedef int int_type;
64 
65   // int_type needs to be able to hold each possible value of char_type, and in
66   // addition, the distinct value of eof().
67   COMPILE_ASSERT(sizeof(int_type) > sizeof(char_type), unexpected_type_width);
68 
69   typedef std::streamoff off_type;
70   typedef mbstate_t state_type;
71   typedef std::fpos<state_type> pos_type;
72 
assignstring16_char_traits73   static void assign(char_type& c1, const char_type& c2) {
74     c1 = c2;
75   }
76 
eqstring16_char_traits77   static bool eq(const char_type& c1, const char_type& c2) {
78     return c1 == c2;
79   }
ltstring16_char_traits80   static bool lt(const char_type& c1, const char_type& c2) {
81     return c1 < c2;
82   }
83 
comparestring16_char_traits84   static int compare(const char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n) {
85     return c16memcmp(s1, s2, n);
86   }
87 
lengthstring16_char_traits88   static size_t length(const char_type* s) {
89     return c16len(s);
90   }
91 
findstring16_char_traits92   static const char_type* find(const char_type* s, size_t n,
93                                const char_type& a) {
94     return c16memchr(s, a, n);
95   }
96 
movestring16_char_traits97   static char_type* move(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, int_type n) {
98     return c16memmove(s1, s2, n);
99   }
100 
copystring16_char_traits101   static char_type* copy(char_type* s1, const char_type* s2, size_t n) {
102     return c16memcpy(s1, s2, n);
103   }
104 
assignstring16_char_traits105   static char_type* assign(char_type* s, size_t n, char_type a) {
106     return c16memset(s, a, n);
107   }
108 
not_eofstring16_char_traits109   static int_type not_eof(const int_type& c) {
110     return eq_int_type(c, eof()) ? 0 : c;
111   }
112 
to_char_typestring16_char_traits113   static char_type to_char_type(const int_type& c) {
114     return char_type(c);
115   }
116 
to_int_typestring16_char_traits117   static int_type to_int_type(const char_type& c) {
118     return int_type(c);
119   }
120 
eq_int_typestring16_char_traits121   static bool eq_int_type(const int_type& c1, const int_type& c2) {
122     return c1 == c2;
123   }
124 
eofstring16_char_traits125   static int_type eof() {
126     return static_cast<int_type>(EOF);
127   }
128 };
129 
130 }  // namespace base
131 
132 // The string class will be explicitly instantiated only once, in string16.cc.
133 //
134 // std::basic_string<> in GNU libstdc++ contains a static data member,
135 // _S_empty_rep_storage, to represent empty strings.  When an operation such
136 // as assignment or destruction is performed on a string, causing its existing
137 // data member to be invalidated, it must not be freed if this static data
138 // member is being used.  Otherwise, it counts as an attempt to free static
139 // (and not allocated) data, which is a memory error.
140 //
141 // Generally, due to C++ template magic, _S_empty_rep_storage will be marked
142 // as a coalesced symbol, meaning that the linker will combine multiple
143 // instances into a single one when generating output.
144 //
145 // If a string class is used by multiple shared libraries, a problem occurs.
146 // Each library will get its own copy of _S_empty_rep_storage.  When strings
147 // are passed across a library boundary for alteration or destruction, memory
148 // errors will result.  GNU libstdc++ contains a configuration option,
149 // --enable-fully-dynamic-string (_GLIBCXX_FULLY_DYNAMIC_STRING), which
150 // disables the static data member optimization, but it's a good optimization
151 // and non-STL code is generally at the mercy of the system's STL
152 // configuration.  Fully-dynamic strings are not the default for GNU libstdc++
153 // libstdc++ itself or for the libstdc++ installations on the systems we care
154 // about, such as Mac OS X and relevant flavors of Linux.
155 //
156 // See also http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24196 .
157 //
158 // To avoid problems, string classes need to be explicitly instantiated only
159 // once, in exactly one library.  All other string users see it via an "extern"
160 // declaration.  This is precisely how GNU libstdc++ handles
161 // std::basic_string<char> (string) and std::basic_string<wchar_t> (wstring).
162 //
163 // This also works around a Mac OS X linker bug in ld64-85.2.1 (Xcode 3.1.2),
164 // in which the linker does not fully coalesce symbols when dead code
165 // stripping is enabled.  This bug causes the memory errors described above
166 // to occur even when a std::basic_string<> does not cross shared library
167 // boundaries, such as in statically-linked executables.
168 //
169 // TODO(mark): File this bug with Apple and update this note with a bug number.
170 
171 extern template class
172 #ifdef ANDROID
173 BASE_API
174 #endif
175 std::basic_string<char16, base::string16_char_traits>;
176 
177 typedef std::basic_string<char16, base::string16_char_traits> string16;
178 
179 namespace base {
180 BASE_API extern std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& out, const string16& str);
181 }
182 
183 #endif  // WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32
184 
185 #endif  // BASE_STRING16_H_
186