libutil: add checked arithmetic tools

This is in preparation for adding checked arithmetic to the evaluator.

Change-Id: I6e115ce8f5411feda1706624977a4dcd5efd4d13

2 files changed, 171 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/checked-arithmetic.hh b/src/libutil/checked-arithmetic.hh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c0c63feff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libutil/checked-arithmetic.hh
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+#pragma once
+/**
+ * @file Checked arithmetic with classes that make it hard to accidentally make something an unchecked operation.
+ */
+
+#include <compare>
+#include <concepts> // IWYU pragma: keep
+#include <exception>
+#include <ostream>
+#include <limits>
+#include <optional>
+#include <type_traits>
+
+namespace nix::checked {
+
+class DivideByZero : std::exception
+{};
+
+/**
+ * Numeric value enforcing checked arithmetic. Performing mathematical operations on such values will return a Result type which needs to be checked.
+ */
+template<std::integral T>
+struct Checked
+{
+    using Inner = T;
+
+    // TODO: this must be a "trivial default constructor", which means it
+    // cannot set the value to NOT DO UB on uninit.
+    T value;
+
+    Checked() = default;
+    explicit Checked(T const value) : value{value} {}
+    Checked(Checked<T> const & other) = default;
+    Checked(Checked<T> && other) = default;
+    Checked<T> & operator=(Checked<T> const & other) = default;
+
+    std::strong_ordering operator<=>(Checked<T> const & other) const = default;
+    std::strong_ordering operator<=>(T const & other) const
+    {
+        return value <=> other;
+    }
+
+    explicit operator T() const
+    {
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    enum class OverflowKind {
+        NoOverflow,
+        Overflow,
+        DivByZero,
+    };
+
+    class Result
+    {
+        T value;
+        OverflowKind overflowed_;
+
+    public:
+        Result(T value, bool overflowed) : value{value}, overflowed_{overflowed ? OverflowKind::Overflow : OverflowKind::NoOverflow} {}
+        Result(T value, OverflowKind overflowed) : value{value}, overflowed_{overflowed} {}
+
+        bool operator==(Result other) const
+        {
+            return value == other.value && overflowed_ == other.overflowed_;
+        }
+
+        std::optional<T> valueChecked() const
+        {
+            if (overflowed_ != OverflowKind::NoOverflow) {
+                return std::nullopt;
+            } else {
+                return value;
+            }
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Returns the result as if the arithmetic were performed as wrapping arithmetic.
+         *
+         * \throws DivideByZero if the operation was a divide by zero.
+         */
+        T valueWrapping() const
+        {
+            if (overflowed_ == OverflowKind::DivByZero) {
+                throw DivideByZero{};
+            }
+            return value;
+        }
+
+        bool overflowed() const
+        {
+            return overflowed_ == OverflowKind::Overflow;
+        }
+
+        bool divideByZero() const
+        {
+            return overflowed_ == OverflowKind::DivByZero;
+        }
+    };
+
+    Result operator+(Checked<T> const other) const
+    {
+        return (*this) + other.value;
+    }
+    Result operator+(T const other) const
+    {
+        T result;
+        bool overflowed = __builtin_add_overflow(value, other, &result);
+        return Result{result, overflowed};
+    }
+
+    Result operator-(Checked<T> const other) const
+    {
+        return (*this) - other.value;
+    }
+    Result operator-(T const other) const
+    {
+        T result;
+        bool overflowed = __builtin_sub_overflow(value, other, &result);
+        return Result{result, overflowed};
+    }
+
+    Result operator*(Checked<T> const other) const
+    {
+        return (*this) * other.value;
+    }
+    Result operator*(T const other) const
+    {
+        T result;
+        bool overflowed = __builtin_mul_overflow(value, other, &result);
+        return Result{result, overflowed};
+    }
+
+    Result operator/(Checked<T> const other) const
+    {
+        return (*this) / other.value;
+    }
+    /**
+     * Performs a checked division.
+     *
+     * If the right hand side is zero, the result is marked as a DivByZero and
+     * valueWrapping will throw.
+     */
+    Result operator/(T const other) const
+    {
+        constexpr T const minV = std::numeric_limits<T>::min();
+
+        // It's only possible to overflow with signed division since doing so
+        // requires crossing the two's complement limits by MIN / -1 (since
+        // two's complement has one more in range in the negative direction
+        // than in the positive one).
+        if (std::is_signed<T>() && (value == minV && other == -1)) {
+            return Result{minV, true};
+        } else if (other == 0) {
+            return Result{0, OverflowKind::DivByZero};
+        } else {
+            T result = value / other;
+            return Result{result, false};
+        }
+    }
+};
+
+template<std::integral T>
+std::ostream & operator<<(std::ostream & ios, Checked<T> v)
+{
+    ios << v.value;
+    return ios;
+}
+
+}
diff --git a/src/libutil/meson.build b/src/libutil/meson.build
index 211196c60..c860e7e00 100644
--- a/src/libutil/meson.build
+++ b/src/libutil/meson.build
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ libutil_headers = files(
   'box_ptr.hh',
   'canon-path.hh',
   'cgroup.hh',
+  'checked-arithmetic.hh',
   'chunked-vector.hh',
   'closure.hh',
   'comparator.hh',