On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 9:25 AM agicy 的 QQ 邮箱 <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you for the detailed review.  Let me go through the points:
>
>
> On Jul 9, 2026, at 21:38, Tomasz Kaminski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM Tomasz Kaminski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 1:20 PM Anlai Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Add partial specialization of _Iter_sink for ostreambuf_iterator
>>> that inherits _Streambuf_sink, replacing per-character sputc with
>>> bulk sputn and zero-copy put-area writes.
>>>
>>> All counting and truncation (_M_max) is handled in this
>>> specialization so that _Streambuf_sink stays a pure I/O layer.
>>> _M_overflow counts all characters and only writes up to the limit,
>>> so format_to_n can compute the total output length.  _M_discarding
>>> returns false for the same reason.  Stack writes go through
>>> _M_out._M_put() which tracks failure on the iterator.
>>>
>>> libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog:
>>>
>>>         * include/std/format
>>>         (_Iter_sink<ostreambuf_iterator>): New partial specialization.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anlai Lu <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>>  libstdc++-v3/include/std/format | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 77 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/std/format
>>> b/libstdc++-v3/include/std/format
>>> index cb6cc4592..b14ed9746 100644
>>> --- a/libstdc++-v3/include/std/format
>>> +++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/std/format
>>> @@ -3843,6 +3843,83 @@ namespace __format
>>>        }
>>>      };
>>>
>>> +  // Specialization replacing per-character sputc with bulk sputn
>>> +  // and zero-copy writes into the streambuf's put area.
>>> +  template<typename _CharT, typename _Traits>
>>> +    class _Iter_sink<_CharT, ostreambuf_iterator<_CharT, _Traits>>
>>> +    : public _Streambuf_sink<_CharT, _Traits>
>>> +    {
>>> +      using _Base = _Streambuf_sink<_CharT, _Traits>;
>>> +      using typename _Base::_Sink_state;
>>> +      using _OutIter = ostreambuf_iterator<_CharT, _Traits>;
>>> +      using __diff_t = iter_difference_t<_OutIter>;
>>> +      _OutIter _M_out;
>>> +      __diff_t _M_max;
>>>
>> Would use size_t here, we can convert it back to iter difference
>> of size_t, but will make check simpler (because we will never hit -1
>> characters).
>>
> Good suggestion.  This patch uses iter_difference_t because the generic
> _Iter_sink uses iter_difference_t for _M_max (only _Ptr_sink uses size_t
> for both), so keeping iter_difference_t here stays consistent within
> the family.  I wonder if unifying both _Iter_sink to size_t would be
> better done as a follow-up?
>
We need to use iter_difference in the generic case, as the result type
may be integer-class-type, i.e. a class that can represent values bigger
than
size_t. So we need to handle situation when someone calls format_to that
would
write more than size_t characters for such iterators.
However, of ostreambuf_iterator we know that difference type is ptrdiff_t,
so size_t
will be bigger than any actually representable difference beteween
iterators.

So in short, _Ptr_sink and this iter could use size_t. But we cannot use it
in generic
template. So I would change this one.


> +
>>> +    protected:
>>> +      size_t _M_count = 0;
>>> +
>>> +      _GLIBCXX_CONSTEXPR_FORMAT void
>>> +      _M_overflow() override
>>> +      {
>>> +       auto __s = this->_M_used();
>>> +       if (__s.empty()) [[unlikely]]
>>> +         return;
>>>
>> I would implement this as follows, comments are for explanation, but does
>> not need to
>> be in final code.
>>            size_t __prev = _M_count;
>>            _M_count += n;
>>
>>            // We already wrote more than max, just clear the buffer.
>>            if (__prev >= _M_max)
>>              this->_M_rewind();
>>            // We havent reached the maximum, just write to the sink
>>            else if (_M_count < _M_max)
>>              _Streambuf_sink::_M_oveflow();
>>            // Last write pushed us over maximum, we just need to
>>            // handle last charcters
>>            else
>>              {
>>                 // Limit then number of written characters
>>                  this->_M_reset(__s, _M_max - __prev);
>>                  _Streambuf_sink::_M_oveflow(); // Write this to stream
>>
> We could use something like _M_flush() here, that will "write" pending
> characters (call pbump or write buffer), without reseting the span.
> I would extract the following code from _Stream_sink::_M_overflow
> (and call it from there).
>
> A _M_flush would indeed simplify things in principle.
>
> The reason I kept them separate is that the stack-buffer flush is
> different in the two classes:
>
>   - _Streambuf_sink calls sputn() directly (and ignores the return value,
>   since it has no iterator to track failure on),
>   - while the _Iter_sink specialization goes through _M_out._M_put(),
>   which checks sputn's return value and sets _M_failed on the iterator.
>
Oh, I see know. However, I believe that it would be valuable for the
_Streambuf_sink
to keep flag if we failed writing to it. Because, in that case we could
return true
from _M_discarding and stop writting to that sink (I am looking towards
model when
we could may use _Streambuf_sink to implement print to ostream*). This way
the information about the failure need not to be propagate from _M_flush,
it could be queried from base.

* I need to study standard if that is trully allowed, but it would be great
to do that.


>
> There is a existing _Padding_sink::_M_flush() that returns void. But in
> _Streambuf_sink case we would need the caller to somehow know whether
> the write succeeded;
>
I would put the tracking in the _Streambuf_sink due above.


> returning the number of characters written and
> exposing _M_set_failed() in _Iter_sink could bridge the gap, but that
> feels heavier than keeping the overflow logic.
>
And we can just pass the flag to the iterator constructor.

>
>                  _M_reset(_M_buf); // Use buffer to store and write
>> remaining characters.
>>               }
>> This way we do not need _M_pbump.
>>
>> We also need to override _M_reserve to avoid reserving more than _M_max
>> characters,
>> something like:
>>      _GLIBCXX_CONSTEXPR_FORMAT typename _Sink<_CharT>::_Reservation
>>      _M_reserve(size_t __n) override
>>      {
>>            if (_M_max - _M_count < __n)
>>              return { nullptr; }
>>            return _Streambuf_sink::_M_reserve(__n);
>>      }
>>
>> And then _M_bump to count written characters:
>>      _M_bump(size_t __n)
>>       {
>>           _M_count += __n;
>>          _Streambuf_sink::_M_bump(__n);
>>         // We written up to _M_max (_M_reserve prevents us from writting
>> more).
>>          if (_M_count >= _M_max)
>>            _M_reset(_M_buf);
>>      }
>>         _
>> +
>>
>>> +       size_t __n = __s.size();
>>> +       size_t __commit = 0;
>>> +       if (_M_max < 0)
>>> +         __commit = __n;
>>> +       else if (_M_count < static_cast<size_t>(_M_max))
>>> +         {
>>> +           size_t __max = _M_max - _M_count;
>>> +           __commit = min(__n, __max);
>>> +         }
>>> +
>>> +       _M_count += __n;
>>> +       switch (this->_M_state)
>>> +       {
>>> +         case _Sink_state::_S_stack:
>>> +           // _M_put checks sputn's return value and sets
>>> +           // _M_failed on the iterator on short write, so
>>> +           // the caller sees the failure.
>>> +           _M_out._M_put(__s.data(), __commit);
>>> +           break;
>>> +         case _Sink_state::_S_put_area:
>>> +           this->_M_pbump(__commit);
>>> +           break;
>>> +       }
>>> +
>>> +       if (!this->_M_use_put_area())
>>> +         this->_M_use_stackbuf();
>>> +      }
>>> +
>>> +      _GLIBCXX_CONSTEXPR_FORMAT bool
>>> +      _M_discarding() const override
>>>
>> We of course will override _M_discarding to false here again.

> +      {
>>> +       return false;
>>> +      }
>>> +
>>> +    public:
>>> +      [[__gnu__::__always_inline__]]
>>> +      _GLIBCXX_CONSTEXPR_FORMAT explicit
>>> +      _Iter_sink(_OutIter __out, __diff_t __max = -1)
>>> +      : _Base(__out._M_get_sbuf()), _M_out(__out), _M_max(__max)
>>> +      { }
>>> +
>>> +      using _Base::out;
>>> +
>>> +      _GLIBCXX_CONSTEXPR_FORMAT format_to_n_result<_OutIter>
>>> +      _M_finish() &&
>>> +      {
>>> +       if (this->_M_used().size() != 0)
>>> +         _M_overflow();
>>>
>>  We could also call _M_flush here, as we do not need to restore the
> buffer.
>
>> +
>>> +       iter_difference_t<_OutIter> __count(_M_count);
>>>
>> We still do not restore the failed flag.
>>
> For the put-area path, __safe_pbump is just a pointer increment and
> never fails.  For the stack path, _M_out._M_put() already sets the
> iterator's _M_failed internally when sputn returns short:
>
Ah, I see. My model was to reuse _M_flush, and track failed in
_Streambuf_sink.

>
>   ostreambuf_iterator&
>   _M_put(const _CharT* __ws, streamsize __len)
>   {
>       if (__builtin_expect(!_M_failed, true)
>           && __builtin_expect(this->_M_sbuf->sputn(__ws, __len) != __len,
>                               false))
>         _M_failed = true;
>       return *this;
>   }
>
> +       return { std::move(_M_out), __count };
>>> +      }
>>> +    };
>>> +
>>>    // Used for contiguous iterators.
>>>    // No buffer is used, characters are written straight to the iterator.
>>>    // We do not know the size of the output range, so the span size just
>>> grows
>>> --
>>> 2.34.1
>>
>>
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