llvm-project/libcxx
Louis Dionne 4e0ea2cf2e [libc++] Use enable_if_t instead of _EnableIf
I just ran into a compiler error involving __bind_back and some overloads
that were being disabled with _EnableIf. I noticed that the error message
was quite bad and did not mention the reason for the overload being
excluded. Specifically, the error looked like this:

     candidate template ignored: substitution failure [with _Args =
     <ContiguousView>]: no member named '_EnableIfImpl' in 'std::_MetaBase<false>'

Instead, when using enable_if or enable_if_t, the compiler is clever and
can produce better diagnostics, like so:

     candidate template ignored: requirement 'is_invocable_v<
          std::__bind_back_op<1, std::integer_sequence<unsigned long, 0>>,
          std::ranges::views::__transform::__fn &, std::tuple<PlusOne> &,
          ContiguousView>' was not satisfied [with _Args = <ContiguousView>]

Basically, it tries to do a poor man's implementation of concepts, which
is already a lot better than simply complaining about substitution failure.

Hence, this commit uses enable_if_t instead of _EnableIf whenever
possible. That is both more straightforward than using the internal
helper, and also leads to better error messages in those cases.

I understand the motivation for _EnableIf's implementation was to improve
compile-time performance, however I believe striving to improve error
messages is even more important for our QOI, hence this patch. Furthermore,
it is unclear that _EnableIf actually improved compile-time performance
in any noticeable way (see discussion in the review for details).

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D108216
2021-09-08 09:09:28 -04:00
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benchmarks [test] Migrate -gcc-toolchain with space separator to --gcc-toolchain= 2021-08-20 15:24:58 -07:00
cmake [libc++][format] Add a CMake Unicode option. 2021-09-04 11:55:10 +02:00
docs Mention OpenBSD in the documentation 2021-09-07 07:55:17 -04:00
include [libc++] Use enable_if_t instead of _EnableIf 2021-09-08 09:09:28 -04:00
lib [libc++][NFC] Add missing commits to the ABI changelog 2021-07-20 09:19:52 -04:00
src [libc++] Remove some workarounds for unsupported GCC and Clang versions 2021-09-01 10:57:14 -04:00
test [libcxx] [test] Simplify get_temp_file_name() for mingw 2021-09-08 10:24:34 +03:00
utils [libc++] Provide 'buildhost=<platform> feature for the tests. 2021-09-07 11:49:53 -04:00
.clang-format [libcxx][NFC] removes IndentRequires from .clang-format 2021-04-15 19:28:45 +00:00
.gitignore [libcxx] Fix .gitignore to not exclude test directories 2020-03-25 17:52:23 -07:00
CMakeLists.txt [libc++][format] Add a CMake Unicode option. 2021-09-04 11:55:10 +02:00
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