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      1 //===-- llvm/Constant.h - Constant class definition -------------*- 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 contains the declaration of the Constant class.
     11 //
     12 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     13 
     14 #ifndef LLVM_IR_CONSTANT_H
     15 #define LLVM_IR_CONSTANT_H
     16 
     17 #include "llvm/IR/User.h"
     18 
     19 namespace llvm {
     20   class APInt;
     21 
     22   template<typename T> class SmallVectorImpl;
     23 
     24 /// This is an important base class in LLVM. It provides the common facilities
     25 /// of all constant values in an LLVM program. A constant is a value that is
     26 /// immutable at runtime. Functions are constants because their address is
     27 /// immutable. Same with global variables.
     28 ///
     29 /// All constants share the capabilities provided in this class. All constants
     30 /// can have a null value. They can have an operand list. Constants can be
     31 /// simple (integer and floating point values), complex (arrays and structures),
     32 /// or expression based (computations yielding a constant value composed of
     33 /// only certain operators and other constant values).
     34 ///
     35 /// Note that Constants are immutable (once created they never change)
     36 /// and are fully shared by structural equivalence.  This means that two
     37 /// structurally equivalent constants will always have the same address.
     38 /// Constants are created on demand as needed and never deleted: thus clients
     39 /// don't have to worry about the lifetime of the objects.
     40 /// @brief LLVM Constant Representation
     41 class Constant : public User {
     42   void operator=(const Constant &) LLVM_DELETED_FUNCTION;
     43   Constant(const Constant &) LLVM_DELETED_FUNCTION;
     44   virtual void anchor();
     45 
     46 protected:
     47   Constant(Type *ty, ValueTy vty, Use *Ops, unsigned NumOps)
     48     : User(ty, vty, Ops, NumOps) {}
     49 
     50   void destroyConstantImpl();
     51 public:
     52   /// isNullValue - Return true if this is the value that would be returned by
     53   /// getNullValue.
     54   bool isNullValue() const;
     55 
     56   /// isAllOnesValue - Return true if this is the value that would be returned by
     57   /// getAllOnesValue.
     58   bool isAllOnesValue() const;
     59 
     60   /// isNegativeZeroValue - Return true if the value is what would be returned
     61   /// by getZeroValueForNegation.
     62   bool isNegativeZeroValue() const;
     63 
     64   /// Return true if the value is negative zero or null value.
     65   bool isZeroValue() const;
     66 
     67   /// canTrap - Return true if evaluation of this constant could trap.  This is
     68   /// true for things like constant expressions that could divide by zero.
     69   bool canTrap() const;
     70 
     71   /// isThreadDependent - Return true if the value can vary between threads.
     72   bool isThreadDependent() const;
     73 
     74   /// isConstantUsed - Return true if the constant has users other than constant
     75   /// exprs and other dangling things.
     76   bool isConstantUsed() const;
     77 
     78   enum PossibleRelocationsTy {
     79     NoRelocation = 0,
     80     LocalRelocation = 1,
     81     GlobalRelocations = 2
     82   };
     83 
     84   /// getRelocationInfo - This method classifies the entry according to
     85   /// whether or not it may generate a relocation entry.  This must be
     86   /// conservative, so if it might codegen to a relocatable entry, it should say
     87   /// so.  The return values are:
     88   ///
     89   ///  NoRelocation: This constant pool entry is guaranteed to never have a
     90   ///     relocation applied to it (because it holds a simple constant like
     91   ///     '4').
     92   ///  LocalRelocation: This entry has relocations, but the entries are
     93   ///     guaranteed to be resolvable by the static linker, so the dynamic
     94   ///     linker will never see them.
     95   ///  GlobalRelocations: This entry may have arbitrary relocations.
     96   ///
     97   /// FIXME: This really should not be in VMCore.
     98   PossibleRelocationsTy getRelocationInfo() const;
     99 
    100   /// getAggregateElement - For aggregates (struct/array/vector) return the
    101   /// constant that corresponds to the specified element if possible, or null if
    102   /// not.  This can return null if the element index is a ConstantExpr, or if
    103   /// 'this' is a constant expr.
    104   Constant *getAggregateElement(unsigned Elt) const;
    105   Constant *getAggregateElement(Constant *Elt) const;
    106 
    107   /// getSplatValue - If this is a splat vector constant, meaning that all of
    108   /// the elements have the same value, return that value. Otherwise return 0.
    109   Constant *getSplatValue() const;
    110 
    111   /// If C is a constant integer then return its value, otherwise C must be a
    112   /// vector of constant integers, all equal, and the common value is returned.
    113   const APInt &getUniqueInteger() const;
    114 
    115   /// destroyConstant - Called if some element of this constant is no longer
    116   /// valid.  At this point only other constants may be on the use_list for this
    117   /// constant.  Any constants on our Use list must also be destroy'd.  The
    118   /// implementation must be sure to remove the constant from the list of
    119   /// available cached constants.  Implementations should call
    120   /// destroyConstantImpl as the last thing they do, to destroy all users and
    121   /// delete this.
    122   virtual void destroyConstant() { llvm_unreachable("Not reached!"); }
    123 
    124   //// Methods for support type inquiry through isa, cast, and dyn_cast:
    125   static inline bool classof(const Value *V) {
    126     return V->getValueID() >= ConstantFirstVal &&
    127            V->getValueID() <= ConstantLastVal;
    128   }
    129 
    130   /// replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant - This method is a special form of
    131   /// User::replaceUsesOfWith (which does not work on constants) that does work
    132   /// on constants.  Basically this method goes through the trouble of building
    133   /// a new constant that is equivalent to the current one, with all uses of
    134   /// From replaced with uses of To.  After this construction is completed, all
    135   /// of the users of 'this' are replaced to use the new constant, and then
    136   /// 'this' is deleted.  In general, you should not call this method, instead,
    137   /// use Value::replaceAllUsesWith, which automatically dispatches to this
    138   /// method as needed.
    139   ///
    140   virtual void replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant(Value *, Value *, Use *) {
    141     // Provide a default implementation for constants (like integers) that
    142     // cannot use any other values.  This cannot be called at runtime, but needs
    143     // to be here to avoid link errors.
    144     assert(getNumOperands() == 0 && "replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant must be "
    145            "implemented for all constants that have operands!");
    146     llvm_unreachable("Constants that do not have operands cannot be using "
    147                      "'From'!");
    148   }
    149 
    150   static Constant *getNullValue(Type* Ty);
    151 
    152   /// @returns the value for an integer or vector of integer constant of the
    153   /// given type that has all its bits set to true.
    154   /// @brief Get the all ones value
    155   static Constant *getAllOnesValue(Type* Ty);
    156 
    157   /// getIntegerValue - Return the value for an integer or pointer constant,
    158   /// or a vector thereof, with the given scalar value.
    159   static Constant *getIntegerValue(Type* Ty, const APInt &V);
    160 
    161   /// removeDeadConstantUsers - If there are any dead constant users dangling
    162   /// off of this constant, remove them.  This method is useful for clients
    163   /// that want to check to see if a global is unused, but don't want to deal
    164   /// with potentially dead constants hanging off of the globals.
    165   void removeDeadConstantUsers() const;
    166 };
    167 
    168 } // End llvm namespace
    169 
    170 #endif
    171