// This file is part of the mcl project. // Copyright (c) 2022 merryhime // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT #pragma once #include #include namespace mcl { /// Reinterpret objects of one type as another by bit-casting between object representations. template inline Dest bit_cast(const Source& source) noexcept { static_assert(sizeof(Dest) == sizeof(Source), "size of destination and source objects must be equal"); static_assert(std::is_trivially_copyable_v, "destination type must be trivially copyable."); static_assert(std::is_trivially_copyable_v, "source type must be trivially copyable"); std::aligned_storage_t dest; std::memcpy(&dest, &source, sizeof(dest)); return reinterpret_cast(dest); } /// Reinterpret objects of any arbitrary type as another type by bit-casting between object representations. /// Note that here we do not verify if source pointed to by source_ptr has enough bytes to read from. template inline Dest bit_cast_pointee(const SourcePtr source_ptr) noexcept { static_assert(sizeof(SourcePtr) == sizeof(void*), "source pointer must have size of a pointer"); static_assert(std::is_trivially_copyable_v, "destination type must be trivially copyable."); std::aligned_storage_t dest; std::memcpy(&dest, bit_cast(source_ptr), sizeof(dest)); return reinterpret_cast(dest); } } // namespace mcl