implementing fallible allocation API (try_reserve) for Vec, String and HashMap

src/liballoc/vec.rs

@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ use borrow::Cow;
 use boxed::Box;
 use raw_vec::RawVec;
 use super::range::RangeArgument;
+use super::allocator::CollectionAllocErr;
 use Bound::{Excluded, Included, Unbounded};
 
 /// A contiguous growable array type, written `Vec<T>` but pronounced 'vector'.
@@ -489,6 +490,83 @@ impl<T> Vec<T> {
         self.buf.reserve_exact(self.len, additional);
     }
 
+    /// Tries to reserve capacity for at least `additional` more elements to be inserted
+    /// in the given `Vec<T>`. The collection may reserve more space to avoid
+    /// frequent reallocations. After calling `reserve`, capacity will be
+    /// greater than or equal to `self.len() + additional`. Does nothing if
+    /// capacity is already sufficient.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// If the capacity overflows, or the allocator reports a failure, then an error
+    /// is returned.
+    ///
+    /// # Examples
+    ///
+    /// ```
+    /// #![feature(try_reserve)]
+    /// use std::collections::CollectionAllocErr;
+    ///
+    /// fn process_data(data: &[u32]) -> Result<Vec<u32>, CollectionAllocErr> {
+    ///     let mut output = Vec::new();
+    ///
+    ///     // Pre-reserve the memory, exiting if we can't
+    ///     output.try_reserve(data.len())?;
+    ///
+    ///     // Now we know this can't OOM in the middle of our complex work
+    ///     output.extend(data.iter().map(|&val| {
+    ///         val * 2 + 5 // very complicated
+    ///     }));
+    ///
+    ///     Ok(output)
+    /// }
+    /// # process_data(&[1, 2, 3]).expect("why is the test harness OOMing on 12 bytes?");
+    /// ```
+    #[unstable(feature = "try_reserve", reason = "new API", issue="48043")]
+    pub fn try_reserve(&mut self, additional: usize) -> Result<(), CollectionAllocErr> {
+        self.buf.try_reserve(self.len, additional)
+    }
+
+    /// Tries to reserves the minimum capacity for exactly `additional` more elements to
+    /// be inserted in the given `Vec<T>`. After calling `reserve_exact`,
+    /// capacity will be greater than or equal to `self.len() + additional`.
+    /// Does nothing if the capacity is already sufficient.
+    ///
+    /// Note that the allocator may give the collection more space than it
+    /// requests. Therefore capacity can not be relied upon to be precisely
+    /// minimal. Prefer `reserve` if future insertions are expected.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// If the capacity overflows, or the allocator reports a failure, then an error
+    /// is returned.
+    ///
+    /// # Examples
+    ///
+    /// ```
+    /// #![feature(try_reserve)]
+    /// use std::collections::CollectionAllocErr;
+    ///
+    /// fn process_data(data: &[u32]) -> Result<Vec<u32>, CollectionAllocErr> {
+    ///     let mut output = Vec::new();
+    ///
+    ///     // Pre-reserve the memory, exiting if we can't
+    ///     output.try_reserve(data.len())?;
+    ///
+    ///     // Now we know this can't OOM in the middle of our complex work
+    ///     output.extend(data.iter().map(|&val| {
+    ///         val * 2 + 5 // very complicated
+    ///     }));
+    ///
+    ///     Ok(output)
+    /// }
+    /// # process_data(&[1, 2, 3]).expect("why is the test harness OOMing on 12 bytes?");
+    /// ```
+    #[unstable(feature = "try_reserve", reason = "new API", issue="48043")]
+    pub fn try_reserve_exact(&mut self, additional: usize) -> Result<(), CollectionAllocErr>  {
+        self.buf.try_reserve_exact(self.len, additional)
+    }
+
     /// Shrinks the capacity of the vector as much as possible.
     ///
     /// It will drop down as close as possible to the length but the allocator