Description
Currently, the internal state class _Packaged_state
used by packaged_task
stores a function
.
Lines 481 to 486 in 37120ed
Lines 550 to 551 in 37120ed
However, function
requires the stored target object to be copy constructible while packaged_task
doesn't, which rendered our implementation strategy non-conforming (reject-valid) for a long while, see #321.
#4946 partially fixed the non-conformance. However, the fix was imperfect:
- it introduced handling for move-only functors which
function
isn't supposed to support, - it was broken when one specializes
function
for program-defined types, although I don't think anyone should do this, and - when the functor's copy constructor is eligible but ill-formed, there's still hard error from it, which isn't supposed to happen for
packaged_task
.
In vNext where ABI breakage is available, we need to change the internal storage type. It seems that the implementation details of that type can be shared with move_only_function
, but it doesn't seem possible to directly use move_only_function
because move_only_function
is only available since C++23.
vNext note: Resolving this issue will require breaking binary compatibility. We won't be able to accept pull requests for this issue until the vNext branch is available. See #169 for more information.