source: src/SynTree/AddressExpr.cc @ 8a6cf7e

//
// Cforall Version 1.0.0 Copyright (C) 2015 University of Waterloo
//
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// AddressExpr.cc --
//
// Author           : Richard C. Bilson
// Created On       : Sun May 17 23:54:44 2015
// Last Modified By : Rob Schluntz
// Last Modified On : Tue Apr 26 12:35:13 2016
// Update Count     : 6
//

#include "Expression.h"
#include "Type.h"
#include "Common/utility.h"

// Address expressions are typed based on the following inference rules:
//    E : lvalue T  &..& (n references)
//   &E :        T *&..& (n references)
//
//    E : T  &..&        (m references)
//   &E : T *&..&        (m-1 references)
//
// That is, lvalues becomes

namespace {
        Type * addrType( Type * type ) {
                if ( ReferenceType * refType = dynamic_cast< ReferenceType * >( type ) ) {
                        return new ReferenceType( refType->get_qualifiers(), addrType( refType->get_base() ) );
                } else {
                        return new PointerType( Type::Qualifiers(), type->clone() );
                }
        }
}

AddressExpr::AddressExpr( Expression *arg, Expression *_aname ) : Expression( _aname ), arg( arg ) {
        if ( arg->has_result() ) {
                if ( arg->get_result()->get_lvalue() ) {
                        // lvalue, retains all layers of reference and gains a pointer inside the references
                        set_result( addrType( arg->get_result() ) );
                } else {
                        // taking address of non-lvalue -- must be a reference, loses one layer of reference
                        ReferenceType * refType = safe_dynamic_cast< ReferenceType * >( arg->get_result() );
                        set_result( addrType( refType->get_base() ) );
                }
                // result of & is never an lvalue
                get_result()->set_lvalue( false );
        }
}

AddressExpr::AddressExpr( const AddressExpr &other ) : Expression( other ), arg( maybeClone( other.arg ) ) {
}

AddressExpr::~AddressExpr() {
        delete arg;
}

void AddressExpr::print( std::ostream &os, int indent ) const {
        os << "Address of:" << std::endl;
        if ( arg ) {
                os << std::string( indent+2, ' ' );
                arg->print( os, indent+2 );
        } // if
}

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