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- /* Dynamic testing for abstract is-a relationships.
- Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- Contributed by Lawrence Crowl.
- This file is part of GCC.
- GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
- the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
- Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later
- version.
- GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
- WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
- for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see
- <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
- /* This header generic type query and conversion functions.
- USING THE GENERIC TYPE FACILITY
- The user functions are:
- bool is_a <TYPE> (pointer)
- Tests whether the pointer actually points to a more derived TYPE.
- Suppose you have a symtab_node *ptr, AKA symtab_node *ptr. You can test
- whether it points to a 'derived' cgraph_node as follows.
- if (is_a <cgraph_node *> (ptr))
- ....
- TYPE as_a <TYPE> (pointer)
- Converts pointer to a TYPE.
- You can just assume that it is such a node.
- do_something_with (as_a <cgraph_node *> *ptr);
- TYPE safe_as_a <TYPE> (pointer)
- Like as_a <TYPE> (pointer), but where pointer could be NULL. This
- adds a check against NULL where the regular is_a_helper hook for TYPE
- assumes non-NULL.
- do_something_with (safe_as_a <cgraph_node *> *ptr);
- TYPE dyn_cast <TYPE> (pointer)
- Converts pointer to TYPE if and only if "is_a <TYPE> pointer". Otherwise,
- returns NULL. This function is essentially a checked down cast.
- This functions reduce compile time and increase type safety when treating a
- generic item as a more specific item.
- You can test and obtain a pointer to the 'derived' type in one indivisible
- operation.
- if (cgraph_node *cptr = dyn_cast <cgraph_node *> (ptr))
- ....
- As an example, the code change is from
- if (symtab_function_p (node))
- {
- struct cgraph_node *cnode = cgraph (node);
- ....
- }
- to
- if (cgraph_node *cnode = dyn_cast <cgraph_node *> (node))
- {
- ....
- }
- The necessary conditional test defines a variable that holds a known good
- pointer to the specific item and avoids subsequent conversion calls and
- the assertion checks that may come with them.
- When, the property test is embedded within a larger condition, the
- variable declaration gets pulled out of the condition. (This approach
- leaves some room for using the variable inappropriately.)
- if (symtab_variable_p (node) && varpool (node)->finalized)
- varpool_analyze_node (varpool (node));
- becomes
- varpool_node *vnode = dyn_cast <varpool_node *> (node);
- if (vnode && vnode->finalized)
- varpool_analyze_node (vnode);
- Note that we have converted two sets of assertions in the calls to varpool
- into safe and efficient use of a variable.
- If you use these functions and get a 'inline function not defined' or a
- 'missing symbol' error message for 'is_a_helper<....>::test', it means that
- the connection between the types has not been made. See below.
- EXTENDING THE GENERIC TYPE FACILITY
- Each connection between types must be made by defining a specialization of the
- template member function 'test' of the template class 'is_a_helper'. For
- example,
- template <>
- template <>
- inline bool
- is_a_helper <cgraph_node *>::test (symtab_node *p)
- {
- return p->type == SYMTAB_FUNCTION;
- }
- If a simple reinterpret_cast between the pointer types is incorrect, then you
- must also specialize the template member function 'cast'. Failure to do so
- when needed may result in a crash. For example,
- template <>
- template <>
- inline bool
- is_a_helper <cgraph_node *>::cast (symtab_node *p)
- {
- return &p->x_function;
- }
- */
- #ifndef GCC_IS_A_H
- #define GCC_IS_A_H
- /* A generic type conversion internal helper class. */
- template <typename T>
- struct is_a_helper
- {
- template <typename U>
- static inline bool test (U *p);
- template <typename U>
- static inline T cast (U *p);
- };
- /* Note that we deliberately do not define the 'test' member template. Not
- doing so will result in a build-time error for type relationships that have
- not been defined, rather than a run-time error. See the discussion above
- for when to define this member. */
- /* This is the generic implementation for casting from one type to another.
- Do not use this routine directly; it is an internal function. See the
- discussion above for when to define this member. */
- template <typename T>
- template <typename U>
- inline T
- is_a_helper <T>::cast (U *p)
- {
- return reinterpret_cast <T> (p);
- }
- /* The public interface. */
- /* A generic test for a type relationship. See the discussion above for when
- to use this function. The question answered is "Is type T a derived type of
- type U?". */
- template <typename T, typename U>
- inline bool
- is_a (U *p)
- {
- return is_a_helper<T>::test (p);
- }
- /* A generic conversion from a base type U to a derived type T. See the
- discussion above for when to use this function. */
- template <typename T, typename U>
- inline T
- as_a (U *p)
- {
- gcc_checking_assert (is_a <T> (p));
- return is_a_helper <T>::cast (p);
- }
- /* Similar to as_a<>, but where the pointer can be NULL, even if
- is_a_helper<T> doesn't check for NULL. */
- template <typename T, typename U>
- inline T
- safe_as_a (U *p)
- {
- if (p)
- {
- gcc_checking_assert (is_a <T> (p));
- return is_a_helper <T>::cast (p);
- }
- else
- return NULL;
- }
- /* A generic checked conversion from a base type U to a derived type T. See
- the discussion above for when to use this function. */
- template <typename T, typename U>
- inline T
- dyn_cast (U *p)
- {
- if (is_a <T> (p))
- return is_a_helper <T>::cast (p);
- else
- return static_cast <T> (0);
- }
- #endif /* GCC_IS_A_H */
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