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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_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:
Constant(Type * ty,ValueTy vty,Use * Ops,unsigned NumOps)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.
destroyConstant()106   virtual void destroyConstant() { assert(0 && "Not reached!"); }
107 
108   //// Methods for support type inquiry through isa, cast, and dyn_cast:
classof(const Constant *)109   static inline bool classof(const Constant *) { return true; }
classof(const GlobalValue *)110   static inline bool classof(const GlobalValue *) { return true; }
classof(const Value * V)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   ///
replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant(Value *,Value *,Use *)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