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      1 //===- llvm/Support/type_traits.h - Simplfied type traits -------*- C++ -*-===//
      2 //
      3 //                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
      4 //
      5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
      6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
      7 //
      8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
      9 //
     10 // This file provides a template class that determines if a type is a class or
     11 // not. The basic mechanism, based on using the pointer to member function of
     12 // a zero argument to a function was "boosted" from the boost type_traits
     13 // library. See http://www.boost.org/ for all the gory details.
     14 //
     15 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     16 
     17 #ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_TYPE_TRAITS_H
     18 #define LLVM_SUPPORT_TYPE_TRAITS_H
     19 
     20 #include <utility>
     21 
     22 // This is actually the conforming implementation which works with abstract
     23 // classes.  However, enough compilers have trouble with it that most will use
     24 // the one in boost/type_traits/object_traits.hpp. This implementation actually
     25 // works with VC7.0, but other interactions seem to fail when we use it.
     26 
     27 namespace llvm {
     28 
     29 namespace dont_use
     30 {
     31     // These two functions should never be used. They are helpers to
     32     // the is_class template below. They cannot be located inside
     33     // is_class because doing so causes at least GCC to think that
     34     // the value of the "value" enumerator is not constant. Placing
     35     // them out here (for some strange reason) allows the sizeof
     36     // operator against them to magically be constant. This is
     37     // important to make the is_class<T>::value idiom zero cost. it
     38     // evaluates to a constant 1 or 0 depending on whether the
     39     // parameter T is a class or not (respectively).
     40     template<typename T> char is_class_helper(void(T::*)());
     41     template<typename T> double is_class_helper(...);
     42 }
     43 
     44 template <typename T>
     45 struct is_class
     46 {
     47   // is_class<> metafunction due to Paul Mensonides (leavings (at) attbi.com). For
     48   // more details:
     49   // http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=000001c1cc83%24e154d5e0%247772e50c%40c161550a&rnum=1
     50  public:
     51     enum { value = sizeof(char) == sizeof(dont_use::is_class_helper<T>(0)) };
     52 };
     53 
     54 
     55 /// isPodLike - This is a type trait that is used to determine whether a given
     56 /// type can be copied around with memcpy instead of running ctors etc.
     57 template <typename T>
     58 struct isPodLike {
     59   // If we don't know anything else, we can (at least) assume that all non-class
     60   // types are PODs.
     61   static const bool value = !is_class<T>::value;
     62 };
     63 
     64 // std::pair's are pod-like if their elements are.
     65 template<typename T, typename U>
     66 struct isPodLike<std::pair<T, U> > {
     67   static const bool value = isPodLike<T>::value & isPodLike<U>::value;
     68 };
     69 
     70 
     71 /// \brief Metafunction that determines whether the two given types are
     72 /// equivalent.
     73 template<typename T, typename U>
     74 struct is_same {
     75   static const bool value = false;
     76 };
     77 
     78 template<typename T>
     79 struct is_same<T, T> {
     80   static const bool value = true;
     81 };
     82 
     83 // enable_if_c - Enable/disable a template based on a metafunction
     84 template<bool Cond, typename T = void>
     85 struct enable_if_c {
     86   typedef T type;
     87 };
     88 
     89 template<typename T> struct enable_if_c<false, T> { };
     90 
     91 // enable_if - Enable/disable a template based on a metafunction
     92 template<typename Cond, typename T = void>
     93 struct enable_if : public enable_if_c<Cond::value, T> { };
     94 
     95 namespace dont_use {
     96   template<typename Base> char base_of_helper(const volatile Base*);
     97   template<typename Base> double base_of_helper(...);
     98 }
     99 
    100 /// is_base_of - Metafunction to determine whether one type is a base class of
    101 /// (or identical to) another type.
    102 template<typename Base, typename Derived>
    103 struct is_base_of {
    104   static const bool value
    105     = is_class<Base>::value && is_class<Derived>::value &&
    106       sizeof(char) == sizeof(dont_use::base_of_helper<Base>((Derived*)0));
    107 };
    108 
    109 // remove_pointer - Metafunction to turn Foo* into Foo.  Defined in
    110 // C++0x [meta.trans.ptr].
    111 template <typename T> struct remove_pointer { typedef T type; };
    112 template <typename T> struct remove_pointer<T*> { typedef T type; };
    113 template <typename T> struct remove_pointer<T*const> { typedef T type; };
    114 template <typename T> struct remove_pointer<T*volatile> { typedef T type; };
    115 template <typename T> struct remove_pointer<T*const volatile> {
    116     typedef T type; };
    117 
    118 template <bool, typename T, typename F>
    119 struct conditional { typedef T type; };
    120 
    121 template <typename T, typename F>
    122 struct conditional<false, T, F> { typedef F type; };
    123 
    124 }
    125 
    126 #endif
    127