/* Copyright (C) 2022-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GDB. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #ifndef COMMON_GDB_CHECKED_DYNAMIC_CAST_H #define COMMON_GDB_CHECKED_DYNAMIC_CAST_H #include "gdbsupport/traits.h" namespace gdb { /* This function can be used in place of static_cast when casting between pointers of polymorphic types. The benefit of using this call is that, when compiling in developer mode, dynamic_cast will be used to validate the cast. This use of dynamic_cast is why this function will only work for polymorphic types. In non-developer (i.e. production) builds, the dynamic_cast is replaced with a static_cast which is usually significantly faster. */ template T checked_static_cast (V *v) { /* We only support casting to pointer types. */ static_assert (std::is_pointer::value, "target must be a pointer type"); /* Check for polymorphic types explicitly in case we're in release mode. */ static_assert (std::is_polymorphic::value, "types must be polymorphic"); /* Figure out the type that T points to. */ using T_no_P = typename std::remove_pointer::type; /* In developer mode this cast uses dynamic_cast to confirm at run-time that the cast from V* to T is valid. However, we can catch some mistakes at compile time, this assert prevents anything other than downcasts, or casts to same type. */ static_assert (std::is_base_of::value || std::is_base_of::value, "types must be related"); #ifdef DEVELOPMENT if (v == nullptr) return nullptr; T result = dynamic_cast (v); gdb_assert (result != nullptr); #else T result = static_cast (v); #endif return result; } } #endif /* COMMON_GDB_CHECKED_DYNAMIC_CAST_H */