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langhooks.h
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1 /* The lang_hooks data structure.
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19 
20 #ifndef GCC_LANG_HOOKS_H
21 #define GCC_LANG_HOOKS_H
22 
23 /* FIXME: This file should be #include-d after tree.h (for enum tree_code). */
24 
25 struct diagnostic_info;
26 
27 struct gimplify_omp_ctx;
28 
29 struct array_descr_info;
30 
31 /* A print hook for print_tree (). */
32 typedef void (*lang_print_tree_hook) (FILE *, tree, int indent);
33 
34 enum classify_record
36 
37 /* The following hooks are documented in langhooks.c. Must not be
38  NULL. */
39 
41 {
42  bool (*var_mod_type_p) (tree, tree);
43 };
44 
45 /* The following hooks are used by tree-dump.c. */
46 
48 {
49  /* Dump language-specific parts of tree nodes. Returns nonzero if it
50  does not want the usual dumping of the second argument. */
51  bool (*dump_tree) (void *, tree);
52 
53  /* Determine type qualifiers in a language-specific way. */
54  int (*type_quals) (const_tree);
55 };
56 
57 /* Hooks related to types. */
58 
60 {
61  /* Return a new type (with the indicated CODE), doing whatever
62  language-specific processing is required. */
63  tree (*make_type) (enum tree_code);
64 
65  /* Return what kind of RECORD_TYPE this is, mainly for purposes of
66  debug information. If not defined, record types are assumed to
67  be structures. */
68  enum classify_record (*classify_record) (tree);
69 
70  /* Given MODE and UNSIGNEDP, return a suitable type-tree with that
71  mode. */
72  tree (*type_for_mode) (enum machine_mode, int);
73 
74  /* Given PRECISION and UNSIGNEDP, return a suitable type-tree for an
75  integer type with at least that precision. */
76  tree (*type_for_size) (unsigned, int);
77 
78  /* True if the type is an instantiation of a generic type,
79  e.g. C++ template implicit specializations. */
80  bool (*generic_p) (const_tree);
81 
82  /* Returns the TREE_VEC of elements of a given generic argument pack. */
84 
85  /* Given a type, apply default promotions to unnamed function
86  arguments and return the new type. Return the same type if no
87  change. Required by any language that supports variadic
88  arguments. The default hook dies. */
90 
91  /* Register TYPE as a builtin type with the indicated NAME. The
92  TYPE is placed in the outermost lexical scope. The semantics
93  should be analogous to:
94 
95  typedef TYPE NAME;
96 
97  in C. The default hook ignores the declaration. */
98  void (*register_builtin_type) (tree, const char *);
99 
100  /* This routine is called in tree.c to print an error message for
101  invalid use of an incomplete type. VALUE is the expression that
102  was used (or 0 if that isn't known) and TYPE is the type that was
103  invalid. */
105 
106  /* Called from assign_temp to return the maximum size, if there is one,
107  for a type. */
108  tree (*max_size) (const_tree);
109 
110  /* Register language specific type size variables as potentially OpenMP
111  firstprivate variables. */
113 
114  /* Return true if TYPE is a mappable type. */
115  bool (*omp_mappable_type) (tree type);
116 
117  /* Return TRUE if TYPE1 and TYPE2 are identical for type hashing purposes.
118  Called only after doing all language independent checks.
119  At present, this function is only called when both TYPE1 and TYPE2 are
120  FUNCTION_TYPEs. */
122 
123  /* Return TRUE if TYPE uses a hidden descriptor and fills in information
124  for the debugger about the array bounds, strides, etc. */
127  /* Fill in information for the debugger about the bounds of TYPE. */
128  void (*get_subrange_bounds) (const_tree, tree *, tree *);
129 
130  /* A type descriptive of TYPE's complex layout generated to help the
131  debugger to decode variable-length or self-referential constructs.
132  This is only used for the AT_GNAT_descriptive_type DWARF attribute. */
134 
135  /* If we requested a pointer to a vector, build up the pointers that
136  we stripped off while looking for the inner type. Similarly for
137  return values from functions. The argument TYPE is the top of the
138  chain, and BOTTOM is the new type which we will point to. */
140 };
141 
142 /* Language hooks related to Cilk Plus. */
143 
145 {
146  /* Returns true if the expression passed in has a spawned function call. */
148 
149  /* Function to add the clean up functions after spawn. The reason why it is
150  language dependent is because in C++, it must handle exceptions. */
152 
153  /* Function to gimplify a spawned function call. Returns enum gimplify
154  status, but as mentioned in a previous comment, we can't see that type
155  here, so just return an int. */
157 };
158 
159 /* Language hooks related to decls and the symbol table. */
160 
162 {
163  /* Return true if we are in the global binding level. This hook is really
164  needed only if the language supports variable-sized types at the global
165  level, i.e. declared outside subprograms. */
166  bool (*global_bindings_p) (void);
167 
168  /* Function to add a decl to the current scope level. Takes one
169  argument, a decl to add. Returns that decl, or, if the same
170  symbol is already declared, may return a different decl for that
171  name. */
172  tree (*pushdecl) (tree);
173 
174  /* Returns the chain of decls so far in the current scope level. */
175  tree (*getdecls) (void);
176 
177  /* Returns true if DECL is explicit member function. */
178  bool (*function_decl_explicit_p) (tree);
180  /* Returns True if the parameter is a generic parameter decl
181  of a generic type, e.g a template template parameter for the C++ FE. */
183 
184  /* Determine if a function parameter got expanded from a
185  function parameter pack. */
187 
188  /* Returns the generic declaration of a generic function instantiations. */
190 
191  /* Returns true when we should warn for an unused global DECL.
192  We will already have checked that it has static binding. */
193  bool (*warn_unused_global) (const_tree);
194 
195  /* Obtain a list of globals and do final output on them at end
196  of compilation */
197  void (*final_write_globals) (void);
198 
199  /* True if this decl may be called via a sibcall. */
200  bool (*ok_for_sibcall) (const_tree);
201 
202  /* True if OpenMP should privatize what this DECL points to rather
203  than the DECL itself. */
205 
206  /* Return sharing kind if OpenMP sharing attribute of DECL is
207  predetermined, OMP_CLAUSE_DEFAULT_UNSPECIFIED otherwise. */
209 
210  /* Return decl that should be reported for DEFAULT(NONE) failure
211  diagnostics. Usually the DECL passed in. */
213 
214  /* Return true if DECL's DECL_VALUE_EXPR (if any) should be
215  disregarded in OpenMP construct, because it is going to be
216  remapped during OpenMP lowering. SHARED is true if DECL
217  is going to be shared, false if it is going to be privatized. */
218  bool (*omp_disregard_value_expr) (tree, bool);
219 
220  /* Return true if DECL that is shared iff SHARED is true should
221  be put into OMP_CLAUSE_PRIVATE_DEBUG. */
223 
224  /* Return true if DECL in private clause needs
225  OMP_CLAUSE_PRIVATE_OUTER_REF on the private clause. */
227 
228  /* Build and return code for a default constructor for DECL in
229  response to CLAUSE. OUTER is corresponding outer region's
230  variable if needed. Return NULL if nothing to be done. */
232 
233  /* Build and return code for a copy constructor from SRC to DST. */
234  tree (*omp_clause_copy_ctor) (tree clause, tree dst, tree src);
235 
236  /* Similarly, except use an assignment operator instead. */
237  tree (*omp_clause_assign_op) (tree clause, tree dst, tree src);
238 
239  /* Build and return code destructing DECL. Return NULL if nothing
240  to be done. */
241  tree (*omp_clause_dtor) (tree clause, tree decl);
242 
243  /* Do language specific checking on an implicitly determined clause. */
244  void (*omp_finish_clause) (tree clause);
245 };
246 
247 /* Language hooks related to LTO serialization. */
248 
249 struct lang_hooks_for_lto
250 {
251  /* Begin a new LTO section named NAME. */
252  void (*begin_section) (const char *name);
253 
254  /* Write DATA of length LEN to the currently open LTO section. BLOCK is a
255  pointer to the dynamically allocated memory containing DATA. The
256  append_data function is responsible for freeing it when it is no longer
257  needed. */
258  void (*append_data) (const void *data, size_t len, void *block);
259 
260  /* End the previously begun LTO section. */
261  void (*end_section) (void);
262 };
263 
264 /* Language-specific hooks. See langhooks-def.h for defaults. */
265 
266 struct lang_hooks
267 {
268  /* String identifying the front end. e.g. "GNU C++". */
269  const char *name;
270 
271  /* sizeof (struct lang_identifier), so make_node () creates
272  identifier nodes long enough for the language-specific slots. */
273  size_t identifier_size;
274 
275  /* Remove any parts of the tree that are used only by the FE. */
276  void (*free_lang_data) (tree);
277 
278  /* Determines the size of any language-specific tcc_constant or
279  tcc_exceptional nodes. Since it is called from make_node, the
280  only information available is the tree code. Expected to die
281  on unrecognized codes. */
282  size_t (*tree_size) (enum tree_code);
283 
284  /* Return the language mask used for converting argv into a sequence
285  of options. */
286  unsigned int (*option_lang_mask) (void);
287 
288  /* Initialize variables in an options structure. */
289  void (*init_options_struct) (struct gcc_options *opts);
290 
291  /* After the initialize_diagnostics hook is called, do any simple
292  initialization needed before any calls to handle_option, other
293  than that done by the init_options_struct hook. */
294  void (*init_options) (unsigned int decoded_options_count,
295  struct cl_decoded_option *decoded_options);
296 
297  /* Callback used to perform language-specific initialization for the
298  global diagnostic context structure. */
300 
301  /* Return true if a warning should be given about option OPTION,
302  which is for the wrong language, false if it should be quietly
303  ignored. */
304  bool (*complain_wrong_lang_p) (const struct cl_option *option);
306  /* Handle the switch CODE, which has real type enum opt_code from
307  options.h. If the switch takes an argument, it is passed in ARG
308  which points to permanent storage. The handler is responsible for
309  checking whether ARG is NULL, which indicates that no argument
310  was in fact supplied. For -f and -W switches, VALUE is 1 or 0
311  for the positive and negative forms respectively. HANDLERS should
312  be passed to any recursive handle_option calls. LOC is the
313  location of the option.
314 
315  Return true if the switch is valid, false if invalid. */
316  bool (*handle_option) (size_t code, const char *arg, int value, int kind,
317  location_t loc,
318  const struct cl_option_handlers *handlers);
319 
320  /* Called when all command line options have been parsed to allow
321  further processing and initialization
323  Should return true to indicate that a compiler back-end is
324  not required, such as with the -E option.
325 
326  If errorcount is nonzero after this call the compiler exits
327  immediately and the finish hook is not called. */
328  bool (*post_options) (const char **);
329 
330  /* Called after post_options to initialize the front end. Return
331  false to indicate that no further compilation be performed, in
332  which case the finish hook is called immediately. */
333  bool (*init) (void);
334 
335  /* Called at the end of compilation, as a finalizer. */
336  void (*finish) (void);
337 
338  /* Parses the entire file. */
339  void (*parse_file) (void);
340 
341  /* Determines if it's ok for a function to have no noreturn attribute. */
343 
344  /* Called to obtain the alias set to be used for an expression or type.
345  Returns -1 if the language does nothing special for it. */
348  /* Function to finish handling an incomplete decl at the end of
349  compilation. Default hook is does nothing. */
350  void (*finish_incomplete_decl) (tree);
352  /* Replace the DECL_LANG_SPECIFIC data, which may be NULL, of the
353  DECL_NODE with a newly GC-allocated copy. */
354  void (*dup_lang_specific_decl) (tree);
355 
356  /* Set the DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME for a node. If it is the sort of
357  thing that the assembler should talk about, set
358  DECL_ASSEMBLER_NAME to an appropriate IDENTIFIER_NODE.
359  Otherwise, set it to the ERROR_MARK_NODE to ensure that the
360  assembler does not talk about it. */
361  void (*set_decl_assembler_name) (tree);
362 
363  /* The front end can add its own statistics to -fmem-report with
364  this hook. It should output to stderr. */
365  void (*print_statistics) (void);
366 
367  /* Called by print_tree when there is a tree of class tcc_exceptional
368  that it doesn't know how to display. */
370 
371  /* Called to print language-dependent parts of tcc_decl, tcc_type,
372  and IDENTIFIER_NODE nodes. */
376 
377  /* Computes the name to use to print a declaration. DECL is the
378  non-NULL declaration in question. VERBOSITY determines what
379  information will be printed: 0: DECL_NAME, demangled as
380  necessary. 1: and scope information. 2: and any other
381  information that might be interesting, such as function parameter
382  types in C++. The name is in the internal character set and
383  needs to be converted to the locale character set of diagnostics,
384  or to the execution character set for strings such as
385  __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. */
386  const char *(*decl_printable_name) (tree decl, int verbosity);
387 
388  /* Computes the dwarf-2/3 name for a tree. VERBOSITY determines what
389  information will be printed: 0: DECL_NAME, demangled as
390  necessary. 1: and scope information. */
391  const char *(*dwarf_name) (tree, int verbosity);
392 
393  /* This compares two types for equivalence ("compatible" in C-based languages).
394  This routine should only return 1 if it is sure. It should not be used
395  in contexts where erroneously returning 0 causes problems. */
396  int (*types_compatible_p) (tree x, tree y);
397 
398  /* Called by report_error_function to print out function name. */
399  void (*print_error_function) (diagnostic_context *, const char *,
400  struct diagnostic_info *);
402  /* Convert a character from the host's to the target's character
403  set. The character should be in what C calls the "basic source
404  character set" (roughly, the set of characters defined by plain
405  old ASCII). The default is to return the character unchanged,
406  which is correct in most circumstances. Note that both argument
407  and result should be sign-extended under -fsigned-char,
408  zero-extended under -fno-signed-char. */
410 
411  /* Pointers to machine-independent attribute tables, for front ends
412  using attribs.c. If one is NULL, it is ignored. Respectively, a
413  table of attributes specific to the language, a table of
414  attributes common to two or more languages (to allow easy
415  sharing), and a table of attributes for checking formats. */
416  const struct attribute_spec *attribute_table;
417  const struct attribute_spec *common_attribute_table;
418  const struct attribute_spec *format_attribute_table;
419 
421 
425 
427 
429 
430  struct lang_hooks_for_lto lto;
431 
432  /* Returns a TREE_VEC of the generic parameters of an instantiation of
433  a generic type or decl, e.g. C++ template instantiation. If
434  TREE_CHAIN of the return value is set, it is an INTEGER_CST
435  indicating how many of the elements are non-default. */
437 
438  /* Returns the TREE_VEC of arguments of an instantiation
439  of a generic type of decl, e.g. C++ template instantiation. */
442  /* Determine if a tree is a function parameter pack. */
444 
445  /* Perform language-specific gimplification on the argument. Returns an
446  enum gimplify_status, though we can't see that type here. */
447  int (*gimplify_expr) (tree *, gimple_seq *, gimple_seq *);
448 
449  /* Do language specific processing in the builtin function DECL */
452  /* Like builtin_function, but make sure the scope is the external scope.
453  This is used to delay putting in back end builtin functions until the ISA
454  that defines the builtin is declared via function specific target options,
455  which can save memory for machines like the x86_64 that have multiple
456  ISAs. If this points to the same function as builtin_function, the
457  backend must add all of the builtins at program initialization time. */
459 
460  /* Used to set up the tree_contains_structure array for a frontend. */
461  void (*init_ts) (void);
462 
463  /* Called by recompute_tree_invariant_for_addr_expr to go from EXPR
464  to a contained expression or DECL, possibly updating *TC or *SE
465  if in the process TREE_CONSTANT or TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS need updating. */
466  tree (*expr_to_decl) (tree expr, bool *tc, bool *se);
467 
468  /* The EH personality function decl. */
469  tree (*eh_personality) (void);
470 
471  /* Map a type to a runtime object to match type. */
473 
474  /* If non-NULL, this is a function that returns a function decl to be
475  executed if an unhandled exception is propagated out of a cleanup
476  region. For example, in C++, an exception thrown by a destructor
477  during stack unwinding is required to result in a call to
478  `std::terminate', so the C++ version of this function returns a
479  FUNCTION_DECL for `std::terminate'. */
482  /* Return true if a stmt can fallthru. Used by block_may_fallthru
483  to possibly handle language trees. */
484  bool (*block_may_fallthru) (const_tree);
485 
486  /* True if this language uses __cxa_end_cleanup when the ARM EABI
487  is enabled. */
489 
490  /* True if this language requires deep unsharing of tree nodes prior to
491  gimplification. */
493 
494  /* True if this language allows pointers checker instrumentation. */
495  bool chkp_supported;
496 
497  /* Whenever you add entries here, make sure you adjust langhooks-def.h
498  and langhooks.c accordingly. */
499 };
501 /* Each front end provides its own. */
502 extern struct lang_hooks lang_hooks;
503 
504 extern tree add_builtin_function (const char *name, tree type,
505  int function_code, enum built_in_class cl,
506  const char *library_name,
507  tree attrs);
509 extern tree add_builtin_function_ext_scope (const char *name, tree type,
510  int function_code,
511  enum built_in_class cl,
512  const char *library_name,
513  tree attrs);
514 extern tree add_builtin_type (const char *name, tree type);
515 
516 #endif /* GCC_LANG_HOOKS_H */