Types with non-type template parameters turn into integers of the wrong size

[bsilver8192]

If I have a C++ class with a member function that interacts with a std::chrono::time_point instantiation by value, autocxx generates wrappers that replace time_point with an integer type. My full codebase ends up with uint64_t, my simplified example ends up with uint8_t, not sure why they're different. This results in C++ wrappers that don't compile, so I can't even use other member functions that do have signatures autocxx can handle.

Expected Behavior

Skip generating wrappers for these methods, like other forms of unhandled things.

Actual Behavior

Generated C++ code that doesn't compile.

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

#include <chrono>
struct Clock {
  typedef std::chrono::nanoseconds duration;
};
struct Class {
  int a() { return 42; }
  std::chrono::time_point<Clock> b();
};

2. In some include_cpp! in some .rs file, generate!("Class").
3. Try compiling the generated C++ code.

I don't see any integration tests which try compiling the generated C++ code I can add this to and submit a PR, let me know if there's a good way to do that.

Specifications

• Version: 696fb14
• Platform: Linux

[adetaylor]

Thanks for the report.

I don't see any integration tests which try compiling the generated C++ code I can add

Any of the integration tests should try to build the resulting C++ code, and even execute it. They each use the trybuild crate to build and run a complete executable, linking the Rust and C++ together.

[adetaylor]

Here's what bindgen gives us:

        extern "C" {
            #[cpp_semantics(original_name("b"))]
            #[link_name = "\u{1}__ZN5Class1bEv"]
            pub fn Class_b(this: *mut root::Class) -> u8;
        }
        impl Class {
            #[inline]
            pub unsafe fn a(&mut self) -> ::std::os::raw::c_int {
                Class_a(self)
            }
            #[inline]
            pub unsafe fn b(&mut self) -> u8 {
                Class_b(self)
            }
        }

so I'm pretty sure this will turn out to be a limitation of bindgen. It would be nice to detect this limitation and then ignore such APIs (as you say in the issue description). Unfortunately, no obvious clues are currently present in the bindgen output, so I think we'll have to make a change to bindgen here (or to our fork, autocxx_bindgen).

As a first step, I'm reducing this into an even smaller test case.

[adetaylor]

Oh, and for completeness, here's what actually goes wrong with the test case added in #787:

cargo:warning=/var/folders/9l/cjqbc3ws3bxcjh6h2rykj90800m02d/T/.tmpCxKn9X/target/cxx/gen0.cxx:173:29: error: cannot initialize a variable of type '::std::uint8_t (Class::*)()' with an rvalue of type 'std::chrono::time_point<Clock> (Class::*)()': different return type ('::std::uint8_t' (aka 'unsigned char') vs 'std::chrono::time_point<Clock>')
cargo:warning=  ::std::uint8_t (::Class::*b$)() = &::Class::b;
cargo:warning=                            ^       ~~~~~~~~~~~

[adetaylor]

Here's the creduced version:

typedef char c;
typedef int d;
typedef c uint8_t;
typedef d e;
namespace std {
using ::uint8_t;
template <e> struct f;
typedef f<0> g;
namespace chrono {
template <typename h, typename = typename h::duration> struct i;
using j = g;
template <typename, typename k> struct i {
  typedef k duration;
  duration l;
};
} // namespace chrono
} // namespace std
struct m {
  typedef std::chrono::j duration;
};
struct Class {
  int a();
  std::chrono::i<m> b();
};

[adetaylor]

Running upstream bindgen ca78ae9c41998713db0c6fa70cd21089cdb2af2c with these arguments:

cargo run -- "--rust-target" "1.47" "--default-enum-style" "rust" "--blocklist-item" "rust::String" "--blocklist-item" "std::unique_ptr" "--blocklist-item" "std::weak_ptr" "--blocklist-item" "std::string" "--blocklist-item" "std::shared_ptr" "--blocklist-item" "std::vector" "--blocklist-item" "rust::Str" "--blocklist-item" "rust::Box" "--allowlist-function" "Class" "--allowlist-function" "Class" "--allowlist-function" "autocxx_make_string_default" "--allowlist-type" "Class" "--allowlist-type" "Class" "--allowlist-type" "autocxx_make_string_default" "--allowlist-var" "Class" "--allowlist-var" "Class" "--allowlist-var" "autocxx_make_string_default" "--no-layout-tests" "--no-derive-copy" "--no-derive-debug" "--no-derive-default" "--enable-cxx-namespaces" "--generate" "functions,types,vars,methods,constructors,destructors" "--generate-inline-functions" "--respect-cxx-access-specs" test.hpp  "--" "-x" "c++" "-std=c++14" "-DBINDGEN"

yields

#[allow(non_snake_case, non_camel_case_types, non_upper_case_globals)]
pub mod root {
    #[allow(unused_imports)]
    use self::super::root;
    pub mod std {
        #[allow(unused_imports)]
        use self::super::super::root;
        pub type g = u8;
        pub mod chrono {
            #[allow(unused_imports)]
            use self::super::super::super::root;
            pub type j = root::std::g;
            #[repr(C)]
            pub struct i<k> {
                pub l: root::std::chrono::i_duration<k>,
                pub _phantom_0:
                    ::std::marker::PhantomData<::std::cell::UnsafeCell<k>>,
            }
            pub type i_duration<k> = k;
        }
    }
    #[repr(C)]
    pub struct m {
        pub _address: u8,
    }
    pub type m_duration = root::std::chrono::j;
    #[repr(C)]
    pub struct Class {
        pub _address: u8,
    }
    extern "C" {
        #[link_name = "\u{1}_ZN5Class1aEv"]
        pub fn Class_a(this: *mut root::Class) -> ::std::os::raw::c_int;
    }
    extern "C" {
        #[link_name = "\u{1}_ZN5Class1bEv"]
        pub fn Class_b(this: *mut root::Class) -> u8;
    }
    impl Class {
        #[inline]
        pub unsafe fn a(&mut self) -> ::std::os::raw::c_int {
            Class_a(self)
        }
        #[inline]
        pub unsafe fn b(&mut self) -> u8 {
            Class_b(self)
        }
    }
}

confirming that this appears to be normal bindgen behavior.

[adetaylor]

Some manual minimization gives this:

namespace chrono {
template <typename h, typename = typename h::duration> struct i;
template <int> struct f;
typedef f<0> j;
template <typename, typename k> struct i {
  typedef k duration;
  duration l;
};
} // namespace chrono
struct m {
  typedef chrono::j duration;
};
struct Class {
  int a();
  chrono::i<m> b();
};

[bsilver8192]

After poking into bindgen a bit, I think the bugs there are rust-lang/rust-bindgen#362 and then rust-lang/rust-bindgen#869 in the fallback "opaque blob" codegen. The former looks hard to fix (it mentions libclang changes). Fixing the latter is still going to confuse autocxx into generating C++ code that doesn't compile, but I think that's a duplicate of #687.

[bsilver8192]

Looks like the limitation around non-type template parameters means bindgen doesn't have any way to even get the size of the type, which pretty much prevents any chance of making this fully work. Best case right now looks like bindgen getting smarter about omitting types where it can't find the size, instead of guessing their size is 1.