// This file is part of Eigen, a lightweight C++ template library // for linear algebra. // // Copyright (C) 2009 Gael Guennebaud // // This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla // Public License v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed // with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. #ifndef EIGEN_NOALIAS_H #define EIGEN_NOALIAS_H namespace Eigen { /** \class NoAlias * \ingroup Core_Module * * \brief Pseudo expression providing an operator = assuming no aliasing * * \tparam ExpressionType the type of the object on which to do the lazy assignment * * This class represents an expression with special assignment operators * assuming no aliasing between the target expression and the source expression. * More precisely it alloas to bypass the EvalBeforeAssignBit flag of the source expression. * It is the return type of MatrixBase::noalias() * and most of the time this is the only way it is used. * * \sa MatrixBase::noalias() */ template class StorageBase> class NoAlias { public: typedef typename ExpressionType::Scalar Scalar; EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC explicit NoAlias(ExpressionType& expression) : m_expression(expression) {} template EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE ExpressionType& operator=(const StorageBase& other) { call_assignment_no_alias(m_expression, other.derived(), internal::assign_op()); return m_expression; } template EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE ExpressionType& operator+=(const StorageBase& other) { call_assignment_no_alias(m_expression, other.derived(), internal::add_assign_op()); return m_expression; } template EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE ExpressionType& operator-=(const StorageBase& other) { call_assignment_no_alias(m_expression, other.derived(), internal::sub_assign_op()); return m_expression; } EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC ExpressionType& expression() const { return m_expression; } protected: ExpressionType& m_expression; }; /** \returns a pseudo expression of \c *this with an operator= assuming * no aliasing between \c *this and the source expression. * * More precisely, noalias() allows to bypass the EvalBeforeAssignBit flag. * Currently, even though several expressions may alias, only product * expressions have this flag. Therefore, noalias() is only useful when * the source expression contains a matrix product. * * Here are some examples where noalias is useful: * \code * D.noalias() = A * B; * D.noalias() += A.transpose() * B; * D.noalias() -= 2 * A * B.adjoint(); * \endcode * * On the other hand the following example will lead to a \b wrong result: * \code * A.noalias() = A * B; * \endcode * because the result matrix A is also an operand of the matrix product. Therefore, * there is no alternative than evaluating A * B in a temporary, that is the default * behavior when you write: * \code * A = A * B; * \endcode * * \sa class NoAlias */ template NoAlias EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC MatrixBase::noalias() { return NoAlias(derived()); } } // end namespace Eigen #endif // EIGEN_NOALIAS_H