1 //===-- llvm/Constant.h - Constant class definition -------------*- C++ -*-===//
3 // The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
10 // This file contains the declaration of the Constant class.
12 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
14 #ifndef LLVM_IR_CONSTANT_H
15 #define LLVM_IR_CONSTANT_H
17 #include "llvm/IR/User.h"
22 template<typename T> class SmallVectorImpl;
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.
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).
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 &) LLVM_DELETED_FUNCTION;
43 Constant(const Constant &) LLVM_DELETED_FUNCTION;
44 virtual void anchor();
47 Constant(Type *ty, ValueTy vty, Use *Ops, unsigned NumOps)
48 : User(ty, vty, Ops, NumOps) {}
50 void destroyConstantImpl();
52 /// isNullValue - Return true if this is the value that would be returned by
54 bool isNullValue() const;
56 /// isAllOnesValue - Return true if this is the value that would be returned by
58 bool isAllOnesValue() const;
60 /// isNegativeZeroValue - Return true if the value is what would be returned
61 /// by getZeroValueForNegation.
62 bool isNegativeZeroValue() const;
64 /// Return true if the value is negative zero or null value.
65 bool isZeroValue() const;
67 /// canTrap - Return true if evaluation of this constant could trap. This is
68 /// true for things like constant expressions that could divide by zero.
71 /// isThreadDependent - Return true if the value can vary between threads.
72 bool isThreadDependent() const;
74 /// isConstantUsed - Return true if the constant has users other than constant
75 /// exprs and other dangling things.
76 bool isConstantUsed() const;
78 enum PossibleRelocationsTy {
84 /// getRelocationInfo - This method classifies the entry according to
85 /// whether or not it may generate a relocation entry. This must be
86 /// conservative, so if it might codegen to a relocatable entry, it should say
87 /// so. The return values are:
89 /// NoRelocation: This constant pool entry is guaranteed to never have a
90 /// relocation applied to it (because it holds a simple constant like
92 /// LocalRelocation: This entry has relocations, but the entries are
93 /// guaranteed to be resolvable by the static linker, so the dynamic
94 /// linker will never see them.
95 /// GlobalRelocations: This entry may have arbitrary relocations.
97 /// FIXME: This really should not be in VMCore.
98 PossibleRelocationsTy getRelocationInfo() const;
100 /// getAggregateElement - For aggregates (struct/array/vector) return the
101 /// constant that corresponds to the specified element if possible, or null if
102 /// not. This can return null if the element index is a ConstantExpr, or if
103 /// 'this' is a constant expr.
104 Constant *getAggregateElement(unsigned Elt) const;
105 Constant *getAggregateElement(Constant *Elt) const;
107 /// getSplatValue - If this is a splat vector constant, meaning that all of
108 /// the elements have the same value, return that value. Otherwise return 0.
109 Constant *getSplatValue() const;
111 /// If C is a constant integer then return its value, otherwise C must be a
112 /// vector of constant integers, all equal, and the common value is returned.
113 const APInt &getUniqueInteger() const;
115 /// destroyConstant - Called if some element of this constant is no longer
116 /// valid. At this point only other constants may be on the use_list for this
117 /// constant. Any constants on our Use list must also be destroy'd. The
118 /// implementation must be sure to remove the constant from the list of
119 /// available cached constants. Implementations should call
120 /// destroyConstantImpl as the last thing they do, to destroy all users and
122 virtual void destroyConstant() { llvm_unreachable("Not reached!"); }
124 //// Methods for support type inquiry through isa, cast, and dyn_cast:
125 static inline bool classof(const Value *V) {
126 return V->getValueID() >= ConstantFirstVal &&
127 V->getValueID() <= ConstantLastVal;
130 /// replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant - This method is a special form of
131 /// User::replaceUsesOfWith (which does not work on constants) that does work
132 /// on constants. Basically this method goes through the trouble of building
133 /// a new constant that is equivalent to the current one, with all uses of
134 /// From replaced with uses of To. After this construction is completed, all
135 /// of the users of 'this' are replaced to use the new constant, and then
136 /// 'this' is deleted. In general, you should not call this method, instead,
137 /// use Value::replaceAllUsesWith, which automatically dispatches to this
138 /// method as needed.
140 virtual void replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant(Value *, Value *, Use *) {
141 // Provide a default implementation for constants (like integers) that
142 // cannot use any other values. This cannot be called at runtime, but needs
143 // to be here to avoid link errors.
144 assert(getNumOperands() == 0 && "replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant must be "
145 "implemented for all constants that have operands!");
146 llvm_unreachable("Constants that do not have operands cannot be using "
150 static Constant *getNullValue(Type* Ty);
152 /// @returns the value for an integer or vector of integer constant of the
153 /// given type that has all its bits set to true.
154 /// @brief Get the all ones value
155 static Constant *getAllOnesValue(Type* Ty);
157 /// getIntegerValue - Return the value for an integer or pointer constant,
158 /// or a vector thereof, with the given scalar value.
159 static Constant *getIntegerValue(Type* Ty, const APInt &V);
161 /// removeDeadConstantUsers - If there are any dead constant users dangling
162 /// off of this constant, remove them. This method is useful for clients
163 /// that want to check to see if a global is unused, but don't want to deal
164 /// with potentially dead constants hanging off of the globals.
165 void removeDeadConstantUsers() const;
168 } // End llvm namespace