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// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
#if NETSTANDARD2_1_OR_GREATER
using System;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
namespace CommunityToolkit.HighPerformance;
///
/// A that can store an optional reference to a value of a specified type.
///
/// The type of value to reference.
public readonly ref struct NullableRef
{
///
/// The 1-length instance used to track the target value.
///
internal readonly Span Span;
///
/// Initializes a new instance of the struct.
///
/// The reference to the target value.
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
public NullableRef(ref T value)
{
Span = MemoryMarshal.CreateSpan(ref value, 1);
}
///
/// Initializes a new instance of the struct.
///
/// The instance to track the target reference.
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
private NullableRef(Span span)
{
Span = span;
}
///
/// Gets a instance representing a reference.
///
public static NullableRef Null
{
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
get => default;
}
///
/// Gets a value indicating whether or not the current instance wraps a valid reference that can be accessed.
///
public unsafe bool HasValue
{
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
get
{
// We know that the span will always have a length of either
// 1 or 0, so instead of using a cmp instruction and setting the
// zero flag to produce our boolean value, we can just cast
// the length to byte without overflow checks (doing a cast will
// also account for the byte endianness of the current system),
// and then reinterpret that value to a bool flag.
// This results in a single movzx instruction on x86-64.
byte length = unchecked((byte)Span.Length);
return *(bool*)&length;
}
}
///
/// Gets the reference represented by the current instance.
///
/// Thrown if is .
public ref T Value
{
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
get
{
if (!HasValue)
{
ThrowInvalidOperationException();
}
return ref MemoryMarshal.GetReference(Span);
}
}
///
/// Implicitly converts a instance into a one.
///
/// The input instance.
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
public static implicit operator NullableRef(Ref reference)
{
return new(reference.Span);
}
///
/// Explicitly gets the value from a given instance.
///
/// The input instance.
/// Thrown if is .
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
public static explicit operator T(NullableRef reference)
{
return reference.Value;
}
///
/// Throws a when trying to access for a default instance.
///
private static void ThrowInvalidOperationException()
{
throw new InvalidOperationException("The current instance doesn't have a value that can be accessed.");
}
}
#endif