Boost interprocess unordered_map compilation

Question

I'm using boost 1.53 and GCC 4.1.2. I've tried to use boost unordered_map in some tests (documentation says, that it should work with shared memory), but i'm unable to compile my code. With interprocess::map instead of unordered everything is ok.

Typedefs:

typedef boost::interprocess::allocator<char, SegmentManager> CharAllocator;
typedef boost::interprocess::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, CharAllocator> ShmString;
typedef ShmString  HashKeyType;
//ComplexType is a wrapper for internal interprocess::map
typedef ComplexType  HashMappedType;
typedef std::pair<const ShmString, ComplexType> HashValueType;

typedef boost::interprocess::allocator<HashValueType,
  boost::interprocess::managed_shared_memory::segment_manager> HashMemAllocator;

typedef boost::unordered_map
  < HashKeyType           , HashMappedType
  , boost::hash<HashKeyType>  ,std::equal_to<HashKeyType>
  , HashMemAllocator>
TestHashMap;

Allocation:

boost::interprocess::managed_shared_memory segment( boost::interprocess::open_or_create, "MySharedMemory", 65536);
thm_ = segment.construct<TestHashMap>("TestHashMap")
      (3, boost::hash<ShmString>(), std::equal_to<ShmString>()
      , segment.get_allocator<HashValueType>());

Usage:

boost::interprocess::managed_shared_memory segment( boost::interprocess::open_only, "MySharedMemory");
ShmString str("123.345", segment.get_allocator<ShmString>());

ComplexType th("MySharedMemory");

HashValueType value(str, th);
thm_->insert(value);

And here is some error output:

../boost/include/boost/unordered/detail/allocate.hpp: In instantiation of 'boost::unordered::detail::allocator_traits<boost::interprocess::allocator<boost::unordered::detail::ptr_node<std::pair<const boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >, TINHolderShared> >, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >::pointer_to_other<const boost::unordered::detail::ptr_node<std::pair<const boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >, TINHolderShared> > >':
../boost/include/boost/unordered/detail/allocate.hpp:527:   instantiated from 'boost::unordered::detail::allocator_traits<boost::interprocess::allocator<boost::unordered::detail::ptr_node<std::pair<const boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >, TINHolderShared> >, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >'
../boost/include/boost/unordered/detail/unique.hpp:114:   instantiated from 'boost::unordered::detail::pick_node<boost::interprocess::allocator<std::pair<const boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >, TINHolderShared>, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> >, std::pair<const boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >, TINHolderShared> >'
../boost/include/boost/unordered/detail/unique.hpp:158:   instantiated from 'boost::unordered::detail::map<boost::interprocess::allocator<std::pair<const boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >, TINHolderShared>, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> >, boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >, TINHolderShared, boost::hash<boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > > >, std::equal_to<boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > > > >'
../boost/include/boost/unordered/unordered_map.hpp:59:   instantiated from 'boost::unordered::unordered_map<boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >, TINHolderShared, boost::hash<boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > > >, std::equal_to<boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > > >, boost::interprocess::allocator<std::pair<const boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >, TINHolderShared>, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >'
utest/THUnitTests.cc:96:   instantiated from here
../boost/include/boost/unordered/detail/allocate.hpp:523: error: ambiguous class template instantiation for 'struct boost::pointer_to_other<boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<boost::unordered::detail::ptr_node<std::pair<const boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >, TINHolderShared> >, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, const boost::unordered::detail::ptr_node<std::pair<const boost::container::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, boost::interprocess::allocator<char, boost::interprocess::segment_manager<char, boost::interprocess::rbtree_best_fit<boost::interprocess::mutex_family, boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<void, long int, long unsigned int, 0u>, 0ul>, boost::interprocess::iset_index> > >, TINHolderShared> > >'
../boost/include/boost/interprocess/offset_ptr.hpp:721: error: candidates are: struct boost::pointer_to_other<boost::interprocess::offset_ptr<T1, P1, O1, A1>, U>
../boost/include/boost/pointer_to_other.hpp:29: error:                 struct boost::pointer_to_other<Sp<T>, U>
../boost/include/boost/pointer_to_other.hpp:36: error:                 struct boost::pointer_to_other<Sp<T, T2>, U>
../boost/include/boost/pointer_to_other.hpp:43: error:                 struct boost::pointer_to_other<Sp<T, T2, T3>, U>

I'm not sure if the problem is in my code, or because of old compiler version. If the problem is with compiler, then could it be fixed with newer version of boost? (i can't update my GCC). Or maybe there are some implementations of hash table, that are compatible with shared memory and with my compiler?

Answer 1

Here's a fixed up version.

I just tried to make it self contained according to the suggestive comments. And it works.

Hope it helps anyways:

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#include <boost/interprocess/managed_shared_memory.hpp>
#include <boost/interprocess/containers/string.hpp>
#include <boost/interprocess/containers/map.hpp>
#include <boost/unordered_map.hpp>

namespace bip = boost::interprocess;
// ShmString is boost::interprocess::basic_string
typedef bip::allocator<char, bip::managed_shared_memory::segment_manager> CharAllocator;
typedef bip::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, CharAllocator> ShmString;
typedef ShmString HashKeyType;
// ComplexType is a wrapper for internal interprocess::map
struct ComplexType {
    typedef bip::allocator<std::pair<int const, int>, bip::managed_shared_memory::segment_manager> Alloc;
    typedef bip::map<int, int, std::less<int>, Alloc> Map;

    template <typename Alloc2>
    ComplexType(std::string, Alloc2 const& alloc = {}) : map(alloc) {}
    Map map;
};

typedef ComplexType HashMappedType;
typedef std::pair<const ShmString, ComplexType> HashValueType;
typedef bip::allocator<HashValueType, bip::managed_shared_memory::segment_manager> HashMemAllocator;
typedef boost::unordered_map<HashKeyType, HashMappedType, boost::hash<HashKeyType>, std::equal_to<HashKeyType>, HashMemAllocator>
    TestHashMap;

int main()
{
    // Allocation:
    {
        bip::managed_shared_memory segment(bip::open_or_create, "MySharedMemory", 65536);
        auto thm_ = segment.construct<TestHashMap>("TestHashMap")(3, boost::hash<ShmString>(), std::equal_to<ShmString>(),
                segment.get_allocator<HashValueType>());

    }
    // Usage:
    bip::managed_shared_memory segment(bip::open_only, "MySharedMemory");
    auto thm_ = segment.construct<TestHashMap>("TestHashMap")(3, boost::hash<ShmString>(), std::equal_to<ShmString>(), segment.get_allocator<HashValueType>());
    ShmString str("123.345", segment.get_allocator<ShmString>());

    ComplexType th("MySharedMemory", segment.get_segment_manager());

    HashValueType value(str, th);
    thm_->insert(value);
}