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//===- GenericSSAContext.h --------------------------------------*- C++ -*-===//
//
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// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
/// \file
///
/// This file defines the little GenericSSAContext<X> template class
/// that can be used to implement IR analyses as templates.
/// Specializing these templates allows the analyses to be used over
/// both LLVM IR and Machine IR.
///
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
#ifndef LLVM_ADT_GENERICSSACONTEXT_H
#define LLVM_ADT_GENERICSSACONTEXT_H
#include "llvm/Support/Printable.h"
namespace llvm {
template <typename _FunctionT> class GenericSSAContext {
public:
// Specializations should provide the following types that are similar to how
// LLVM IR is structured:
// The smallest unit of the IR is a ValueT. The SSA context uses a ValueRefT,
// which is a pointer to a ValueT, since Machine IR does not have the
// equivalent of a ValueT.
//
// using ValueRefT = ...
// An InstT is a subclass of ValueT that itself defines one or more ValueT
// objects.
//
// using InstT = ... must be a subclass of Value
// A BlockT is a sequence of InstT, and forms a node of the CFG. It
// has global methods predecessors() and successors() that return
// the list of incoming CFG edges and outgoing CFG edges
// respectively.
//
// using BlockT = ...
// A FunctionT represents a CFG along with arguments and return values. It is
// the smallest complete unit of code in a Module.
//
// The compiler produces an error here if this class is implicitly
// specialized due to an instantiation. An explicit specialization
// of this template needs to be added before the instantiation point
// indicated by the compiler.
using FunctionT = typename _FunctionT::invalidTemplateInstanceError;
// Every FunctionT has a unique BlockT marked as its entry.
//
// static BlockT* getEntryBlock(FunctionT &F);
// Initialize the SSA context with information about the FunctionT being
// processed.
//
// void setFunction(FunctionT &function);
// FunctionT* getFunction() const;
// Methods to print various objects.
//
// Printable print(BlockT *block) const;
// Printable print(InstructionT *inst) const;
// Printable print(ValueRefT value) const;
};
} // namespace llvm
#endif // LLVM_ADT_GENERICSSACONTEXT_H