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#ifndef SRC_TINT_UTILS_MEMORY_BITCAST_H_
#define SRC_TINT_UTILS_MEMORY_BITCAST_H_
#include <cstddef>
#include <cstring>
#include <type_traits>
namespace tint {
/// Bitcast performs a cast of `from` to the `TO` type using a memcpy.
/// This unsafe cast avoids triggering Clang's Control Flow Integrity checks.
/// See: crbug.com/dawn/1406
/// See: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html#bad-cast-checking
/// @param from the value to cast
/// @tparam TO the value to cast to
/// @returns the cast value
template <typename TO, typename FROM>
inline TO Bitcast(FROM&& from) {
static_assert(sizeof(FROM) == sizeof(TO));
// gcc warns in cases where either TO or FROM are classes, even if they are trivially
// copyable, with for example:
//
// error: ‘void* memcpy(void*, const void*, size_t)’ copying an object of
// non-trivial type ‘struct tint::Number<unsigned int>’ from an array of ‘float’
// [-Werror=class-memaccess]
//
// We avoid this by asserting that both types are indeed trivially copyable, and casting both
// args to std::byte*.
static_assert(std::is_trivially_copyable_v<std::decay_t<FROM>>);
static_assert(std::is_trivially_copyable_v<std::decay_t<TO>>);
TO to;
memcpy(reinterpret_cast<std::byte*>(&to), reinterpret_cast<const std::byte*>(&from),
sizeof(TO));
return to;
}
} // namespace tint
#endif // SRC_TINT_UTILS_MEMORY_BITCAST_H_