DeferrableRefCounted.h   [plain text]

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#ifndef DeferrableRefCounted_h
#define DeferrableRefCounted_h

#include <wtf/Assertions.h>
#include <wtf/FastMalloc.h>
#include <wtf/Noncopyable.h>

namespace WTF {

// A variant of RefCounted that allows reference counting to be deferred,
// and can tell you if that has happened. You can think of a deferral as
// just being an additional "ref", except that you can detect if it has
// specifically happened - this can be useful either for debugging, or
// sometimes even for some additional functionality.

class DeferrableRefCountedBase {
    static const unsigned deferredFlag = 1;
    static const unsigned normalIncrement = 2;
    
public:
    void ref()
    {
        m_refCount += normalIncrement;
    }
    
    bool hasOneRef() const
    {
        return refCount() == 1;
    }
    
    unsigned refCount() const
    {
        return m_refCount / normalIncrement;
    }
    
    bool isDeferred() const
    {
        return !!(m_refCount & deferredFlag);
    }
    
protected:
    DeferrableRefCountedBase()
        : m_refCount(normalIncrement)
    {
    }
    
    ~DeferrableRefCountedBase()
    {
    }
    
    bool derefBase()
    {
        m_refCount -= normalIncrement;
        return !m_refCount;
    }

    bool setIsDeferredBase(bool value)
    {
        if (value) {
            m_refCount |= deferredFlag;
            return false;
        }
        m_refCount &= ~deferredFlag;
        return !m_refCount;
    }
    
private:
    unsigned m_refCount;
};

template<typename T>
class DeferrableRefCounted : public DeferrableRefCountedBase {
    WTF_MAKE_NONCOPYABLE(DeferrableRefCounted); WTF_MAKE_FAST_ALLOCATED;
public:
    void deref()
    {
        if (derefBase())
            delete static_cast<T*>(this);
    }
    
    bool setIsDeferred(bool value)
    {
        if (!setIsDeferredBase(value))
            return false;
        delete static_cast<T*>(this);
        return true;
    }
    
protected:
    DeferrableRefCounted() { }
    ~DeferrableRefCounted() { }
};

} // namespace WTF

using WTF::DeferrableRefCounted;

#endif // DeferrableRefCounted_h