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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   virtual void anchor();
45 
46 protected:
Constant(Type * ty,ValueTy vty,Use * Ops,unsigned NumOps)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   /// canTrap - Return true if evaluation of this constant could trap.  This is
65   /// true for things like constant expressions that could divide by zero.
66   bool canTrap() const;
67 
68   /// isConstantUsed - Return true if the constant has users other than constant
69   /// exprs and other dangling things.
70   bool isConstantUsed() const;
71 
72   enum PossibleRelocationsTy {
73     NoRelocation = 0,
74     LocalRelocation = 1,
75     GlobalRelocations = 2
76   };
77 
78   /// getRelocationInfo - This method classifies the entry according to
79   /// whether or not it may generate a relocation entry.  This must be
80   /// conservative, so if it might codegen to a relocatable entry, it should say
81   /// so.  The return values are:
82   ///
83   ///  NoRelocation: This constant pool entry is guaranteed to never have a
84   ///     relocation applied to it (because it holds a simple constant like
85   ///     '4').
86   ///  LocalRelocation: This entry has relocations, but the entries are
87   ///     guaranteed to be resolvable by the static linker, so the dynamic
88   ///     linker will never see them.
89   ///  GlobalRelocations: This entry may have arbitrary relocations.
90   ///
91   /// FIXME: This really should not be in VMCore.
92   PossibleRelocationsTy getRelocationInfo() const;
93 
94   /// getAggregateElement - For aggregates (struct/array/vector) return the
95   /// constant that corresponds to the specified element if possible, or null if
96   /// not.  This can return null if the element index is a ConstantExpr, or if
97   /// 'this' is a constant expr.
98   Constant *getAggregateElement(unsigned Elt) const;
99   Constant *getAggregateElement(Constant *Elt) const;
100 
101   /// destroyConstant - Called if some element of this constant is no longer
102   /// valid.  At this point only other constants may be on the use_list for this
103   /// constant.  Any constants on our Use list must also be destroy'd.  The
104   /// implementation must be sure to remove the constant from the list of
105   /// available cached constants.  Implementations should call
106   /// destroyConstantImpl as the last thing they do, to destroy all users and
107   /// delete this.
destroyConstant()108   virtual void destroyConstant() { llvm_unreachable("Not reached!"); }
109 
110   //// Methods for support type inquiry through isa, cast, and dyn_cast:
classof(const Constant *)111   static inline bool classof(const Constant *) { return true; }
classof(const GlobalValue *)112   static inline bool classof(const GlobalValue *) { return true; }
classof(const Value * V)113   static inline bool classof(const Value *V) {
114     return V->getValueID() >= ConstantFirstVal &&
115            V->getValueID() <= ConstantLastVal;
116   }
117 
118   /// replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant - This method is a special form of
119   /// User::replaceUsesOfWith (which does not work on constants) that does work
120   /// on constants.  Basically this method goes through the trouble of building
121   /// a new constant that is equivalent to the current one, with all uses of
122   /// From replaced with uses of To.  After this construction is completed, all
123   /// of the users of 'this' are replaced to use the new constant, and then
124   /// 'this' is deleted.  In general, you should not call this method, instead,
125   /// use Value::replaceAllUsesWith, which automatically dispatches to this
126   /// method as needed.
127   ///
replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant(Value *,Value *,Use *)128   virtual void replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant(Value *, Value *, Use *) {
129     // Provide a default implementation for constants (like integers) that
130     // cannot use any other values.  This cannot be called at runtime, but needs
131     // to be here to avoid link errors.
132     assert(getNumOperands() == 0 && "replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant must be "
133            "implemented for all constants that have operands!");
134     llvm_unreachable("Constants that do not have operands cannot be using "
135                      "'From'!");
136   }
137 
138   static Constant *getNullValue(Type* Ty);
139 
140   /// @returns the value for an integer constant of the given type that has all
141   /// its bits set to true.
142   /// @brief Get the all ones value
143   static Constant *getAllOnesValue(Type* Ty);
144 
145   /// getIntegerValue - Return the value for an integer or pointer constant,
146   /// or a vector thereof, with the given scalar value.
147   static Constant *getIntegerValue(Type* Ty, const APInt &V);
148 
149   /// removeDeadConstantUsers - If there are any dead constant users dangling
150   /// off of this constant, remove them.  This method is useful for clients
151   /// that want to check to see if a global is unused, but don't want to deal
152   /// with potentially dead constants hanging off of the globals.
153   void removeDeadConstantUsers() const;
154 };
155 
156 } // End llvm namespace
157 
158 #endif
159