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      1 //===- llvm/Support/PointerLikeTypeTraits.h - Pointer 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 defines the PointerLikeTypeTraits class.  This allows data
     11 // structures to reason about pointers and other things that are pointer sized.
     12 //
     13 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     14 
     15 #ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_POINTERLIKETYPETRAITS_H
     16 #define LLVM_SUPPORT_POINTERLIKETYPETRAITS_H
     17 
     18 #include "llvm/Support/DataTypes.h"
     19 
     20 namespace llvm {
     21 
     22 /// PointerLikeTypeTraits - This is a traits object that is used to handle
     23 /// pointer types and things that are just wrappers for pointers as a uniform
     24 /// entity.
     25 template <typename T>
     26 class PointerLikeTypeTraits {
     27   // getAsVoidPointer
     28   // getFromVoidPointer
     29   // getNumLowBitsAvailable
     30 };
     31 
     32 // Provide PointerLikeTypeTraits for non-cvr pointers.
     33 template<typename T>
     34 class PointerLikeTypeTraits<T*> {
     35 public:
     36   static inline void *getAsVoidPointer(T* P) { return P; }
     37   static inline T *getFromVoidPointer(void *P) {
     38     return static_cast<T*>(P);
     39   }
     40 
     41   /// Note, we assume here that malloc returns objects at least 4-byte aligned.
     42   /// However, this may be wrong, or pointers may be from something other than
     43   /// malloc.  In this case, you should specialize this template to reduce this.
     44   ///
     45   /// All clients should use assertions to do a run-time check to ensure that
     46   /// this is actually true.
     47   enum { NumLowBitsAvailable = 2 };
     48 };
     49 
     50 // Provide PointerLikeTypeTraits for const pointers.
     51 template<typename T>
     52 class PointerLikeTypeTraits<const T*> {
     53   typedef PointerLikeTypeTraits<T*> NonConst;
     54 
     55 public:
     56   static inline const void *getAsVoidPointer(const T* P) {
     57     return NonConst::getAsVoidPointer(const_cast<T*>(P));
     58   }
     59   static inline const T *getFromVoidPointer(const void *P) {
     60     return NonConst::getFromVoidPointer(const_cast<void*>(P));
     61   }
     62   enum { NumLowBitsAvailable = NonConst::NumLowBitsAvailable };
     63 };
     64 
     65 // Provide PointerLikeTypeTraits for uintptr_t.
     66 template<>
     67 class PointerLikeTypeTraits<uintptr_t> {
     68 public:
     69   static inline void *getAsVoidPointer(uintptr_t P) {
     70     return reinterpret_cast<void*>(P);
     71   }
     72   static inline uintptr_t getFromVoidPointer(void *P) {
     73     return reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(P);
     74   }
     75   // No bits are available!
     76   enum { NumLowBitsAvailable = 0 };
     77 };
     78 
     79 } // end namespace llvm
     80 
     81 #endif
     82