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+// Based on
+// https://github.com/matthieu-m/rfc2580/blob/b58d1d3cba0d4b5e859d3617ea2d0943aaa31329/examples/thin.rs
+// by matthieu-m
+use crate::alloc::{self, Layout, LayoutError};
+use core::fmt::{self, Debug, Display, Formatter};
+use core::marker::PhantomData;
+#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
+use core::marker::Unsize;
+use core::mem;
+use core::ops::{Deref, DerefMut};
+use core::ptr::Pointee;
+use core::ptr::{self, NonNull};
+
+/// ThinBox.
+///
+/// A thin pointer for heap allocation, regardless of T.
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// ```
+/// #![feature(thin_box)]
+/// use std::boxed::ThinBox;
+///
+/// let five = ThinBox::new(5);
+/// let thin_slice = ThinBox::<[i32]>::new_unsize([1, 2, 3, 4]);
+///
+/// use std::mem::{size_of, size_of_val};
+/// let size_of_ptr = size_of::<*const ()>();
+/// assert_eq!(size_of_ptr, size_of_val(&five));
+/// assert_eq!(size_of_ptr, size_of_val(&thin_slice));
+/// ```
+#[unstable(feature = "thin_box", issue = "92791")]
+pub struct ThinBox<T: ?Sized> {
+ // This is essentially `WithHeader<<T as Pointee>::Metadata>`,
+ // but that would be invariant in `T`, and we want covariance.
+ ptr: WithOpaqueHeader,
+ _marker: PhantomData<T>,
+}
+
+/// `ThinBox<T>` is `Send` if `T` is `Send` because the data is owned.
+#[unstable(feature = "thin_box", issue = "92791")]
+unsafe impl<T: ?Sized + Send> Send for ThinBox<T> {}
+
+/// `ThinBox<T>` is `Sync` if `T` is `Sync` because the data is owned.
+#[unstable(feature = "thin_box", issue = "92791")]
+unsafe impl<T: ?Sized + Sync> Sync for ThinBox<T> {}
+
+#[unstable(feature = "thin_box", issue = "92791")]
+impl<T> ThinBox<T> {
+ /// Moves a type to the heap with its `Metadata` stored in the heap allocation instead of on
+ /// the stack.
+ ///
+ /// # Examples
+ ///
+ /// ```
+ /// #![feature(thin_box)]
+ /// use std::boxed::ThinBox;
+ ///
+ /// let five = ThinBox::new(5);
+ /// ```
+ #[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
+ pub fn new(value: T) -> Self {
+ let meta = ptr::metadata(&value);
+ let ptr = WithOpaqueHeader::new(meta, value);
+ ThinBox { ptr, _marker: PhantomData }
+ }
+}
+
+#[unstable(feature = "thin_box", issue = "92791")]
+impl<Dyn: ?Sized> ThinBox<Dyn> {
+ /// Moves a type to the heap with its `Metadata` stored in the heap allocation instead of on
+ /// the stack.
+ ///
+ /// # Examples
+ ///
+ /// ```
+ /// #![feature(thin_box)]
+ /// use std::boxed::ThinBox;
+ ///
+ /// let thin_slice = ThinBox::<[i32]>::new_unsize([1, 2, 3, 4]);
+ /// ```
+ #[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
+ pub fn new_unsize<T>(value: T) -> Self
+ where
+ T: Unsize<Dyn>,
+ {
+ let meta = ptr::metadata(&value as &Dyn);
+ let ptr = WithOpaqueHeader::new(meta, value);
+ ThinBox { ptr, _marker: PhantomData }
+ }
+}
+
+#[unstable(feature = "thin_box", issue = "92791")]
+impl<T: ?Sized + Debug> Debug for ThinBox<T> {
+ fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+ Debug::fmt(self.deref(), f)
+ }
+}
+
+#[unstable(feature = "thin_box", issue = "92791")]
+impl<T: ?Sized + Display> Display for ThinBox<T> {
+ fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+ Display::fmt(self.deref(), f)
+ }
+}
+
+#[unstable(feature = "thin_box", issue = "92791")]
+impl<T: ?Sized> Deref for ThinBox<T> {
+ type Target = T;
+
+ fn deref(&self) -> &T {
+ let value = self.data();
+ let metadata = self.meta();
+ let pointer = ptr::from_raw_parts(value as *const (), metadata);
+ unsafe { &*pointer }
+ }
+}
+
+#[unstable(feature = "thin_box", issue = "92791")]
+impl<T: ?Sized> DerefMut for ThinBox<T> {
+ fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut T {
+ let value = self.data();
+ let metadata = self.meta();
+ let pointer = ptr::from_raw_parts_mut::<T>(value as *mut (), metadata);
+ unsafe { &mut *pointer }
+ }
+}
+
+#[unstable(feature = "thin_box", issue = "92791")]
+impl<T: ?Sized> Drop for ThinBox<T> {
+ fn drop(&mut self) {
+ unsafe {
+ let value = self.deref_mut();
+ let value = value as *mut T;
+ self.with_header().drop::<T>(value);
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+#[unstable(feature = "thin_box", issue = "92791")]
+impl<T: ?Sized> ThinBox<T> {
+ fn meta(&self) -> <T as Pointee>::Metadata {
+ // Safety:
+ // - NonNull and valid.
+ unsafe { *self.with_header().header() }
+ }
+
+ fn data(&self) -> *mut u8 {
+ self.with_header().value()
+ }
+
+ fn with_header(&self) -> &WithHeader<<T as Pointee>::Metadata> {
+ // SAFETY: both types are transparent to `NonNull<u8>`
+ unsafe { &*((&self.ptr) as *const WithOpaqueHeader as *const WithHeader<_>) }
+ }
+}
+
+/// A pointer to type-erased data, guaranteed to either be:
+/// 1. `NonNull::dangling()`, in the case where both the pointee (`T`) and
+/// metadata (`H`) are ZSTs.
+/// 2. A pointer to a valid `T` that has a header `H` directly before the
+/// pointed-to location.
+#[repr(transparent)]
+struct WithHeader<H>(NonNull<u8>, PhantomData<H>);
+
+/// An opaque representation of `WithHeader<H>` to avoid the
+/// projection invariance of `<T as Pointee>::Metadata`.
+#[repr(transparent)]
+struct WithOpaqueHeader(NonNull<u8>);
+
+impl WithOpaqueHeader {
+ #[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
+ fn new<H, T>(header: H, value: T) -> Self {
+ let ptr = WithHeader::new(header, value);
+ Self(ptr.0)
+ }
+}
+
+impl<H> WithHeader<H> {
+ #[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]
+ fn new<T>(header: H, value: T) -> WithHeader<H> {
+ let value_layout = Layout::new::<T>();
+ let Ok((layout, value_offset)) = Self::alloc_layout(value_layout) else {
+ // We pass an empty layout here because we do not know which layout caused the
+ // arithmetic overflow in `Layout::extend` and `handle_alloc_error` takes `Layout` as
+ // its argument rather than `Result<Layout, LayoutError>`, also this function has been
+ // stable since 1.28 ._.
+ //
+ // On the other hand, look at this gorgeous turbofish!
+ alloc::handle_alloc_error(Layout::new::<()>());
+ };
+
+ unsafe {
+ // Note: It's UB to pass a layout with a zero size to `alloc::alloc`, so
+ // we use `layout.dangling()` for this case, which should have a valid
+ // alignment for both `T` and `H`.
+ let ptr = if layout.size() == 0 {
+ // Some paranoia checking, mostly so that the ThinBox tests are
+ // more able to catch issues.
+ debug_assert!(
+ value_offset == 0 && mem::size_of::<T>() == 0 && mem::size_of::<H>() == 0
+ );
+ layout.dangling()
+ } else {
+ let ptr = alloc::alloc(layout);
+ if ptr.is_null() {
+ alloc::handle_alloc_error(layout);
+ }
+ // Safety:
+ // - The size is at least `aligned_header_size`.
+ let ptr = ptr.add(value_offset) as *mut _;
+
+ NonNull::new_unchecked(ptr)
+ };
+
+ let result = WithHeader(ptr, PhantomData);
+ ptr::write(result.header(), header);
+ ptr::write(result.value().cast(), value);
+
+ result
+ }
+ }
+
+ // Safety:
+ // - Assumes that either `value` can be dereferenced, or is the
+ // `NonNull::dangling()` we use when both `T` and `H` are ZSTs.
+ unsafe fn drop<T: ?Sized>(&self, value: *mut T) {
+ unsafe {
+ let value_layout = Layout::for_value_raw(value);
+ // SAFETY: Layout must have been computable if we're in drop
+ let (layout, value_offset) = Self::alloc_layout(value_layout).unwrap_unchecked();
+
+ // We only drop the value because the Pointee trait requires that the metadata is copy
+ // aka trivially droppable.
+ ptr::drop_in_place::<T>(value);
+
+ // Note: Don't deallocate if the layout size is zero, because the pointer
+ // didn't come from the allocator.
+ if layout.size() != 0 {
+ alloc::dealloc(self.0.as_ptr().sub(value_offset), layout);
+ } else {
+ debug_assert!(
+ value_offset == 0 && mem::size_of::<H>() == 0 && value_layout.size() == 0
+ );
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ fn header(&self) -> *mut H {
+ // Safety:
+ // - At least `size_of::<H>()` bytes are allocated ahead of the pointer.
+ // - We know that H will be aligned because the middle pointer is aligned to the greater
+ // of the alignment of the header and the data and the header size includes the padding
+ // needed to align the header. Subtracting the header size from the aligned data pointer
+ // will always result in an aligned header pointer, it just may not point to the
+ // beginning of the allocation.
+ let hp = unsafe { self.0.as_ptr().sub(Self::header_size()) as *mut H };
+ debug_assert!(hp.is_aligned());
+ hp
+ }
+
+ fn value(&self) -> *mut u8 {
+ self.0.as_ptr()
+ }
+
+ const fn header_size() -> usize {
+ mem::size_of::<H>()
+ }
+
+ fn alloc_layout(value_layout: Layout) -> Result<(Layout, usize), LayoutError> {
+ Layout::new::<H>().extend(value_layout)
+ }
+}