rust/src/libstd/gc.rs
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// Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
// except according to those terms.
/*! Task-local garbage-collected boxes
The `Gc` type provides shared ownership of an immutable value. Destruction is not deterministic, and
will occur some time between every `Gc` handle being gone and the end of the task. The garbage
collector is task-local so `Gc<T>` is not sendable.
*/
use kinds::Send;
use clone::{Clone, DeepClone};
/// Immutable garbage-collected pointer type
#[no_send]
#[deriving(Clone)]
pub struct Gc<T> {
priv ptr: @T
}
impl<T: 'static> Gc<T> {
/// Construct a new garbage-collected box
#[inline]
pub fn new(value: T) -> Gc<T> {
Gc { ptr: @value }
}
}
impl<T: 'static> Gc<T> {
/// Borrow the value contained in the garbage-collected box
#[inline]
pub fn borrow<'r>(&'r self) -> &'r T {
&*self.ptr
}
}
/// The `Send` bound restricts this to acyclic graphs where it is well-defined.
///
/// A `Freeze` bound would also work, but `Send` *or* `Freeze` cannot be expressed.
impl<T: DeepClone + Send + 'static> DeepClone for Gc<T> {
#[inline]
fn deep_clone(&self) -> Gc<T> {
Gc::new(self.borrow().deep_clone())
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
use cell::RefCell;
#[test]
fn test_clone() {
let x = Gc::new(RefCell::new(5));
let y = x.clone();
x.borrow().with_mut(|inner| {
*inner = 20;
});
assert_eq!(y.borrow().with(|x| *x), 20);
}
#[test]
fn test_deep_clone() {
let x = Gc::new(RefCell::new(5));
let y = x.deep_clone();
x.borrow().with_mut(|inner| {
*inner = 20;
});
assert_eq!(y.borrow().with(|x| *x), 5);
}
#[test]
fn test_simple() {
let x = Gc::new(5);
assert_eq!(*x.borrow(), 5);
}
#[test]
fn test_simple_clone() {
let x = Gc::new(5);
let y = x.clone();
assert_eq!(*x.borrow(), 5);
assert_eq!(*y.borrow(), 5);
}
#[test]
fn test_destructor() {
let x = Gc::new(~5);
assert_eq!(**x.borrow(), 5);
}
}