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authorW. J. van der Laan <laanwj@protonmail.com>2021-11-17 15:43:16 +0100
committerW. J. van der Laan <laanwj@protonmail.com>2021-11-17 17:06:55 +0100
commit2ef186a1400c1c7f498549dd97c227819456245e (patch)
treed5297111d3c5716d0d171ee9140cd38fbc3a0c4e /src/span.h
parentd94dc69ee454144f4db12d163b15717cc6cad383 (diff)
parent33c6a208a9e2512a174c99c224a933a59f091bc2 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-2ef186a1400c1c7f498549dd97c227819456245e.tar.xz
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#22881: doc: provide context for CNetAddr::UnserializeV1Array() and span.h with lifetimebound
33c6a208a9e2512a174c99c224a933a59f091bc2 span, doc: provide span.h context and explain lifetimebound definition (Jon Atack) d14395bc5db55331115fa3c1e71741d1de7f092f net, doc: provide context for UnserializeV1Array() (Jon Atack) Pull request description: Add contextual documentation for developers and future readers of the code regarding - CNetAddr::UnserializeV1Array (see #22140) - Span and why it defines Clang lifetimebound locally rather than using the one in attributes.h ACKs for top commit: laanwj: Documentation review ACK 33c6a208a9e2512a174c99c224a933a59f091bc2 Tree-SHA512: cb8e6a6c23b36c9ef7499257e97c5378ec895bb9122b79b63b572d9721a1ae6ce6c0be7ad61bdf976c255527ae750fc9ff4b3e03c07c6c797d14dbc82ea9fb3a
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diff --git a/src/span.h b/src/span.h
index 168162e309..1e347846d8 100644
--- a/src/span.h
+++ b/src/span.h
@@ -30,7 +30,11 @@
/** A Span is an object that can refer to a contiguous sequence of objects.
*
- * It implements a subset of C++20's std::span.
+ * This file implements a subset of C++20's std::span. It can be considered
+ * temporary compatibility code until C++20 and is designed to be a
+ * self-contained abstraction without depending on other project files. For this
+ * reason, Clang lifetimebound is defined here instead of including
+ * <attributes.h>, which also defines it.
*
* Things to be aware of when writing code that deals with Spans:
*
@@ -60,7 +64,7 @@
* types that expose a data() and size() member function), functions that
* accept a Span as input parameter can be called with any compatible
* range-like object. For example, this works:
-*
+ *
* void Foo(Span<const int> arg);
*
* Foo(std::vector<int>{1, 2, 3}); // Works