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-- This package contains declarations for handling of implicit types
with Einfo; use Einfo;
with Einfo.Entities; use Einfo.Entities;
with Sem_Util; use Sem_Util;
with Types; use Types;
package Itypes is
--------------------
-- Implicit Types --
--------------------
-- Implicit types (Itypes) are types and subtypes created by the semantic
-- phase or the expander to reflect the underlying semantics. These could
-- be generated by building trees for corresponding declarations and then
-- analyzing these trees, but there are three reasons for not doing this
-- in some cases:
-- 1. The declarations would require more tree nodes
-- 2. In some cases, the elaboration of these types is associated
-- with internal nodes in the tree.
-- 3. For some types, notably class wide types, there is no Ada
-- declaration that would correspond to the desired entity.
-- So instead, implicit types are constructed by simply creating an
-- appropriate entity with the help of routines in this package. These
-- entities are fully decorated, as described in Einfo (just as though
-- they had been created by the normal analysis procedure).
-- The type declaration declaring an Itype must be analyzed with checks
-- off because this declaration has not been inserted in the tree (if it
-- has been then it is not an Itype), and hence checks that would be
-- generated during the analysis cannot be inserted in the tree. At any
-- rate, Itype analysis should always be done with checks off, otherwise
-- duplicate checks will most likely be emitted.
-- Unlike types declared explicitly, implicit types are defined on first
-- use, which means that Gigi detects the use of such types, and defines
-- them at the point of the first use automatically.
-- Although Itypes are not explicitly declared, they are associated with
-- a specific node in the tree (roughly the node that caused them to be
-- created), via the Associated_Node_For_Itype field. This association is
-- used particularly by New_Copy_Tree, which uses it to determine whether
-- or not to copy a referenced Itype. If the associated node is part of
-- the tree to be copied by New_Copy_Tree, then (since the idea of the
-- call to New_Copy_Tree is to create a complete duplicate of a tree,
-- as though it had appeared separately in the source), the Itype in
-- question is duplicated as part of the New_Copy_Tree processing.
-- As a consequence of this copying mechanism, the association between
-- Itypes and associated nodes must be one-to-one: several Itypes must
-- not share an associated node. For example, the semantic decoration
-- of an array aggregate generates several Itypes: for each index subtype
-- and for the array subtype. The associated node of each index subtype
-- is the corresponding range expression.
-- Notes on the use of the Parent field of an Itype
-- In some cases, we do create a declaration node for an itype, and in
-- such cases, the Parent field of the Itype points to this declaration
-- in the normal manner. This case can be detected by checking for a
-- non-empty Parent field referencing a declaration whose Defining_Entity
-- is the Itype in question.
-- In some other cases, where we don't generate such a declaration, as
-- described above, the Itype is attached to the tree implicitly by being
-- referenced elsewhere, e.g. as the Etype of some object. In this case
-- the Parent field may be Empty.
-- In other cases where we don't generate a declaration for the Itype,
-- the Itype may be attached to an arbitrary node in the tree, using
-- the Parent field. This Parent field may even reference a declaration
-- for a related different entity (hence the description of the tests
-- needed for the case where a declaration for the Itype is created).
------------------
-- Create_Itype --
------------------
function Create_Itype
(Ekind : Entity_Kind;
Related_Nod : Node_Id;
Related_Id : Entity_Id := Empty;
Suffix : Character := ' ';
Suffix_Index : Int := 0;
Scope_Id : Entity_Id := Current_Scope) return Entity_Id;
-- Used to create a new Itype
--
-- Related_Nod is the node for which this Itype was created. It is
-- set as the Associated_Node_For_Itype of the new Itype. The Sloc of
-- the new Itype is that of this node.
--
-- Related_Id is present only if the implicit type name may be referenced
-- as a public symbol, and thus needs a unique external name. The name
-- is created by a call to:
--
-- New_External_Name (Chars (Related_Id), Suffix, Suffix_Index, 'T')
--
-- If the implicit type does not need an external name, then the
-- Related_Id parameter is omitted (and hence Empty). In this case
-- Suffix and Suffix_Index are ignored and the implicit type name is
-- created by a call to Make_Temporary.
--
-- Note that in all cases, the name starts with "T". This is used
-- to identify implicit types in the error message handling circuits.
--
-- The Scope_Id parameter specifies the scope of the created type, and
-- is normally the Current_Scope as shown, but can be set otherwise.
--
-- The size/align fields are initialized to unknown (Uint_0).
--
-- If Ekind is in Access_Subprogram_Kind, Can_Use_Internal_Rep is set True,
-- unless Always_Compatible_Rep_On_Target is True.
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-- Create_Null_Excluding_Itype --
---------------------------------
function Create_Null_Excluding_Itype
(T : Entity_Id;
Related_Nod : Node_Id;
Scope_Id : Entity_Id := Current_Scope) return Entity_Id;
-- Ada 2005 (AI-231): T is an access type and this subprogram creates and
-- returns an internal access-subtype declaration of T that has the null
-- exclusion attribute set to True.
--
-- Usage of null-excluding Itypes
-- ------------------------------
--
-- type T1 is access ...
-- type T2 is not null T1;
--
-- type Rec is record
-- Comp : not null T1;
-- end record;
--
-- type Arr is array (...) of not null T1;
--
-- Instead of associating the not-null attribute with the defining ids of
-- these declarations, we generate an internal subtype declaration of T1
-- that has the null exclusion attribute set to true.
end Itypes;