office-gobmx/include/o3tl/unsafe_downcast.hxx
Stephan Bergmann 8ec3116162 Introduce o3tl::unsafe_downcast for known-good dynamic_cast downcasts
(This helps rewrite code that silences Coverity unchecked dynamic_cast warnings,
like 57b89ea1c2 "coverity#704563 Unchecked dynamic
cast", in a way that is cleaner and potentially executes faster.)

Change-Id: I3319c0eeec2aa822f686feacd499a76c8c9b9499
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/80458
Tested-by: Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>
2019-10-08 18:07:57 +02:00

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4; fill-column: 100 -*- */
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#ifndef INCLUDED_O3TL_UNSAFE_DOWNCAST_HXX
#define INCLUDED_O3TL_UNSAFE_DOWNCAST_HXX
#include <cassert>
#include <type_traits>
namespace o3tl
{
// Do a downcast from polymorphic `BasePtr` to `DerivedPtr` when it is known that `p` is actually
// pointing to an object of derived type (or is a nullptr). This is potentially cheaper than
// dynamic_cast and helps to avoid Coverity warnings about unchecked dynamic_cast.
template <typename DerivedPtr, typename BasePtr>
std::enable_if_t<
(std::is_pointer_v<
DerivedPtr> && std::is_pointer_v<BasePtr> && std::is_base_of_v<std::remove_pointer_t<BasePtr>, std::remove_pointer_t<DerivedPtr>>),
DerivedPtr>
unsafe_downcast(BasePtr p)
{
assert(p == nullptr || dynamic_cast<DerivedPtr>(p) != nullptr);
return static_cast<DerivedPtr>(p);
}
}
#endif
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