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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.
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      8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
      9 //
     10 // This file contains the declaration of the Constant class.
     11 //
     12 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     13 
     14 #ifndef LLVM_CONSTANT_H
     15 #define LLVM_CONSTANT_H
     16 
     17 #include "llvm/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 &);     // Do not implement
     43   Constant(const Constant &);           // Do not implement
     44 
     45 protected:
     46   Constant(Type *ty, ValueTy vty, Use *Ops, unsigned NumOps)
     47     : User(ty, vty, Ops, NumOps) {}
     48 
     49   void destroyConstantImpl();
     50 public:
     51   /// isNullValue - Return true if this is the value that would be returned by
     52   /// getNullValue.
     53   bool isNullValue() const;
     54 
     55   /// isAllOnesValue - Return true if this is the value that would be returned by
     56   /// getAllOnesValue.
     57   bool isAllOnesValue() const;
     58 
     59   /// isNegativeZeroValue - Return true if the value is what would be returned
     60   /// by getZeroValueForNegation.
     61   bool isNegativeZeroValue() const;
     62 
     63   /// canTrap - Return true if evaluation of this constant could trap.  This is
     64   /// true for things like constant expressions that could divide by zero.
     65   bool canTrap() const;
     66 
     67   /// isConstantUsed - Return true if the constant has users other than constant
     68   /// exprs and other dangling things.
     69   bool isConstantUsed() const;
     70 
     71   enum PossibleRelocationsTy {
     72     NoRelocation = 0,
     73     LocalRelocation = 1,
     74     GlobalRelocations = 2
     75   };
     76 
     77   /// getRelocationInfo - This method classifies the entry according to
     78   /// whether or not it may generate a relocation entry.  This must be
     79   /// conservative, so if it might codegen to a relocatable entry, it should say
     80   /// so.  The return values are:
     81   ///
     82   ///  NoRelocation: This constant pool entry is guaranteed to never have a
     83   ///     relocation applied to it (because it holds a simple constant like
     84   ///     '4').
     85   ///  LocalRelocation: This entry has relocations, but the entries are
     86   ///     guaranteed to be resolvable by the static linker, so the dynamic
     87   ///     linker will never see them.
     88   ///  GlobalRelocations: This entry may have arbitrary relocations.
     89   ///
     90   /// FIXME: This really should not be in VMCore.
     91   PossibleRelocationsTy getRelocationInfo() const;
     92 
     93   /// getVectorElements - This method, which is only valid on constant of vector
     94   /// type, returns the elements of the vector in the specified smallvector.
     95   /// This handles breaking down a vector undef into undef elements, etc.  For
     96   /// constant exprs and other cases we can't handle, we return an empty vector.
     97   void getVectorElements(SmallVectorImpl<Constant*> &Elts) const;
     98 
     99   /// destroyConstant - Called if some element of this constant is no longer
    100   /// valid.  At this point only other constants may be on the use_list for this
    101   /// constant.  Any constants on our Use list must also be destroy'd.  The
    102   /// implementation must be sure to remove the constant from the list of
    103   /// available cached constants.  Implementations should call
    104   /// destroyConstantImpl as the last thing they do, to destroy all users and
    105   /// delete this.
    106   virtual void destroyConstant() { assert(0 && "Not reached!"); }
    107 
    108   //// Methods for support type inquiry through isa, cast, and dyn_cast:
    109   static inline bool classof(const Constant *) { return true; }
    110   static inline bool classof(const GlobalValue *) { return true; }
    111   static inline bool classof(const Value *V) {
    112     return V->getValueID() >= ConstantFirstVal &&
    113            V->getValueID() <= ConstantLastVal;
    114   }
    115 
    116   /// replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant - This method is a special form of
    117   /// User::replaceUsesOfWith (which does not work on constants) that does work
    118   /// on constants.  Basically this method goes through the trouble of building
    119   /// a new constant that is equivalent to the current one, with all uses of
    120   /// From replaced with uses of To.  After this construction is completed, all
    121   /// of the users of 'this' are replaced to use the new constant, and then
    122   /// 'this' is deleted.  In general, you should not call this method, instead,
    123   /// use Value::replaceAllUsesWith, which automatically dispatches to this
    124   /// method as needed.
    125   ///
    126   virtual void replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant(Value *, Value *, Use *) {
    127     // Provide a default implementation for constants (like integers) that
    128     // cannot use any other values.  This cannot be called at runtime, but needs
    129     // to be here to avoid link errors.
    130     assert(getNumOperands() == 0 && "replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant must be "
    131            "implemented for all constants that have operands!");
    132     assert(0 && "Constants that do not have operands cannot be using 'From'!");
    133   }
    134 
    135   static Constant *getNullValue(Type* Ty);
    136 
    137   /// @returns the value for an integer constant of the given type that has all
    138   /// its bits set to true.
    139   /// @brief Get the all ones value
    140   static Constant *getAllOnesValue(Type* Ty);
    141 
    142   /// getIntegerValue - Return the value for an integer or pointer constant,
    143   /// or a vector thereof, with the given scalar value.
    144   static Constant *getIntegerValue(Type* Ty, const APInt &V);
    145 
    146   /// removeDeadConstantUsers - If there are any dead constant users dangling
    147   /// off of this constant, remove them.  This method is useful for clients
    148   /// that want to check to see if a global is unused, but don't want to deal
    149   /// with potentially dead constants hanging off of the globals.
    150   void removeDeadConstantUsers() const;
    151 };
    152 
    153 } // End llvm namespace
    154 
    155 #endif
    156