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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 <cstddef>
     21 #include <utility>
     22 
     23 // This is actually the conforming implementation which works with abstract
     24 // classes.  However, enough compilers have trouble with it that most will use
     25 // the one in boost/type_traits/object_traits.hpp. This implementation actually
     26 // works with VC7.0, but other interactions seem to fail when we use it.
     27 
     28 namespace llvm {
     29 
     30 namespace dont_use
     31 {
     32     // These two functions should never be used. They are helpers to
     33     // the is_class template below. They cannot be located inside
     34     // is_class because doing so causes at least GCC to think that
     35     // the value of the "value" enumerator is not constant. Placing
     36     // them out here (for some strange reason) allows the sizeof
     37     // operator against them to magically be constant. This is
     38     // important to make the is_class<T>::value idiom zero cost. it
     39     // evaluates to a constant 1 or 0 depending on whether the
     40     // parameter T is a class or not (respectively).
     41     template<typename T> char is_class_helper(void(T::*)());
     42     template<typename T> double is_class_helper(...);
     43 }
     44 
     45 template <typename T>
     46 struct is_class
     47 {
     48   // is_class<> metafunction due to Paul Mensonides (leavings (at) attbi.com). For
     49   // more details:
     50   // http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=000001c1cc83%24e154d5e0%247772e50c%40c161550a&rnum=1
     51  public:
     52     enum { value = sizeof(char) == sizeof(dont_use::is_class_helper<T>(0)) };
     53 };
     54 
     55 
     56 /// isPodLike - This is a type trait that is used to determine whether a given
     57 /// type can be copied around with memcpy instead of running ctors etc.
     58 template <typename T>
     59 struct isPodLike {
     60   // If we don't know anything else, we can (at least) assume that all non-class
     61   // types are PODs.
     62   static const bool value = !is_class<T>::value;
     63 };
     64 
     65 // std::pair's are pod-like if their elements are.
     66 template<typename T, typename U>
     67 struct isPodLike<std::pair<T, U> > {
     68   static const bool value = isPodLike<T>::value & isPodLike<U>::value;
     69 };
     70 
     71 
     72 /// \brief Metafunction that determines whether the two given types are
     73 /// equivalent.
     74 template<typename T, typename U>
     75 struct is_same {
     76   static const bool value = false;
     77 };
     78 
     79 template<typename T>
     80 struct is_same<T, T> {
     81   static const bool value = true;
     82 };
     83 
     84 // enable_if_c - Enable/disable a template based on a metafunction
     85 template<bool Cond, typename T = void>
     86 struct enable_if_c {
     87   typedef T type;
     88 };
     89 
     90 template<typename T> struct enable_if_c<false, T> { };
     91 
     92 // enable_if - Enable/disable a template based on a metafunction
     93 template<typename Cond, typename T = void>
     94 struct enable_if : public enable_if_c<Cond::value, T> { };
     95 
     96 namespace dont_use {
     97   template<typename Base> char base_of_helper(const volatile Base*);
     98   template<typename Base> double base_of_helper(...);
     99 }
    100 
    101 /// is_base_of - Metafunction to determine whether one type is a base class of
    102 /// (or identical to) another type.
    103 template<typename Base, typename Derived>
    104 struct is_base_of {
    105   static const bool value
    106     = is_class<Base>::value && is_class<Derived>::value &&
    107       sizeof(char) == sizeof(dont_use::base_of_helper<Base>((Derived*)0));
    108 };
    109 
    110 // remove_pointer - Metafunction to turn Foo* into Foo.  Defined in
    111 // C++0x [meta.trans.ptr].
    112 template <typename T> struct remove_pointer { typedef T type; };
    113 template <typename T> struct remove_pointer<T*> { typedef T type; };
    114 template <typename T> struct remove_pointer<T*const> { typedef T type; };
    115 template <typename T> struct remove_pointer<T*volatile> { typedef T type; };
    116 template <typename T> struct remove_pointer<T*const volatile> {
    117     typedef T type; };
    118 
    119 template <bool, typename T, typename F>
    120 struct conditional { typedef T type; };
    121 
    122 template <typename T, typename F>
    123 struct conditional<false, T, F> { typedef F type; };
    124 
    125 }
    126 
    127 #endif
    128