std::ranges:: uninitialized_default_construct

The function-like entities described on this page are algorithm function objects (informally known as niebloids ), that is:

• Explicit template argument lists cannot be specified when calling any of them.
• None of them are visible to argument-dependent lookup .
• When any of them are found by normal unqualified lookup as the name to the left of the function-call operator, argument-dependent lookup is inhibited.

Parameters

Return value

As described above.

Complexity

Linear in the distance between first and last .

Exceptions

Any exception thrown on construction of the elements in the destination range.

Notes

An implementation may skip the objects construction (without changing the observable effect) if no non-trivial default constructor is called while default-initializing a std:: iter_value_t < I > object, which can be detected by std::is_trivially_default_constructible .

Possible implementation

struct uninitialized_default_construct_fn
{
    template<no-throw-forward-iterator I, no-throw-sentinel-for<I> S>
        requires std::default_initializable<std::iter_value_t<I>>
    constexpr I operator()(I first, S last) const
    {
        using ValueType = std::remove_reference_t<std::iter_reference_t<I>>;
        if constexpr (std::is_trivially_default_constructible_v<ValueType>)
            return ranges::next(first, last); // skip initialization
        I rollback{first};
        try
        {
            for (; !(first == last); ++first)
                ::new (static_cast<void*>(std::addressof(*first))) ValueType;
            return first;
        }
        catch (...) // rollback: destroy constructed elements
        {
            for (; rollback != first; ++rollback)
                ranges::destroy_at(std::addressof(*rollback));
            throw;
        }
    }
    template<no-throw-forward-range R>
        requires std::default_initializable<ranges::range_value_t<R>>
    constexpr ranges::borrowed_iterator_t<R> operator()(R&& r) const
    {
        return (*this)(ranges::begin(r), ranges::end(r));
    }
};
inline constexpr uninitialized_default_construct_fn uninitialized_default_construct{};

Example

#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
#include <memory>
#include <string>
int main()
{
    struct S { std::string m{"▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀"}; };
    constexpr int n{4};
    alignas(alignof(S)) char out[n * sizeof(S)];
    try
    {
        auto first{reinterpret_cast<S*>(out)};
        auto last{first + n};
        std::ranges::uninitialized_default_construct(first, last);
        auto count{1};
        for (auto it{first}; it != last; ++it)
            std::cout << count++ << ' ' << it->m << '\n';
        std::ranges::destroy(first, last);
    }
    catch (...) { std::cout << "Exception!\n"; }
    // Notice that for "trivial types" the uninitialized_default_construct
    // generally does not zero-fill the given uninitialized memory area.
    constexpr char sample[]{'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', '\n'};
    char v[]{'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', '\n'};
    std::ranges::uninitialized_default_construct(std::begin(v), std::end(v));
    if (std::memcmp(v, sample, sizeof(v)) == 0)
    {
        std::cout << "  ";
        // Maybe undefined behavior, pending CWG 1997 to be resolved:
        // for (const char c : v) { std::cout << c << ' '; }
        for (const char c : sample)
            std::cout << c << ' ';
    }
    else
        std::cout << "Unspecified\n";
}

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  A B C D

Defect reports

The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.

See also