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26 -- This unit contains the routines used to handle type determination,
27 -- including the routine used to support overload resolution.
29 with Types
; use Types
;
33 ---------------------------------------------
34 -- Data Structures for Overload Resolution --
35 ---------------------------------------------
37 -- To determine the unique meaning of an identifier, overload resolution
38 -- may have to be performed if the visibility rules alone identify more
39 -- than one possible entity as the denotation of a given identifier. When
40 -- the visibility rules find such a potential ambiguity, the set of
41 -- possible interpretations must be attached to the identifier, and
42 -- overload resolution must be performed over the innermost enclosing
43 -- complete context. At the end of the resolution, either a single
44 -- interpretation is found for all identifiers in the context, or else a
45 -- type error (invalid type or ambiguous reference) must be signalled.
47 -- The set of interpretations of a given name is stored in a data structure
48 -- that is separate from the syntax tree, because it corresponds to
49 -- transient information. The interpretations themselves are stored in
50 -- table All_Interp. A mapping from tree nodes to sets of interpretations
51 -- called Interp_Map, is maintained by the overload resolution routines.
52 -- Both these structures are initialized at the beginning of every complete
55 -- Corresponding to the set of interpretations for a given overloadable
56 -- identifier, there is a set of possible types corresponding to the types
57 -- that the overloaded call may return. We keep a 1-to-1 correspondence
58 -- between interpretations and types: for user-defined subprograms the
59 -- type is the declared return type. For operators, the type is determined
60 -- by the type of the arguments. If the arguments themselves are
61 -- overloaded, we enter the operator name in the names table for each
62 -- possible result type. In most cases, arguments are not overloaded and
63 -- only one interpretation is present anyway.
68 Abstract_Op
: Entity_Id
:= Empty
;
71 -- Entity Abstract_Op is set to the abstract operation which potentially
72 -- disables the interpretation in Ada 2005 mode.
74 No_Interp
: constant Interp
:= (Empty
, Empty
, Empty
);
76 subtype Interp_Index
is Int
;
82 -- A common error is the use of an operator in infix notation on arguments
83 -- of a type that is not directly visible. Rather than diagnosing a type
84 -- mismatch, it is better to indicate that the type can be made use-visible
85 -- with the appropriate use clause. The global variable Candidate_Type is
86 -- set in Add_One_Interp whenever an interpretation might be legal for an
87 -- operator if the type were directly visible. This variable is used in
88 -- sem_ch4 when no legal interpretation is found.
90 Candidate_Type
: Entity_Id
;
96 procedure Init_Interp_Tables
;
97 -- Invoked by gnatf when processing multiple files
99 procedure Collect_Interps
(N
: Node_Id
);
100 -- Invoked when the name N has more than one visible interpretation.
101 -- This is the high level routine which accumulates the possible
102 -- interpretations of the node. The first meaning and type of N have
103 -- already been stored in N. If the name is an expanded name, the homonyms
104 -- are only those that belong to the same scope.
106 function Is_Invisible_Operator
110 -- Check whether a predefined operation with universal operands appears
111 -- in a context in which the operators of the expected type are not
114 procedure List_Interps
(Nam
: Node_Id
; Err
: Node_Id
);
115 -- List candidate interpretations of an overloaded name. Used for
116 -- various error reports.
118 procedure Add_One_Interp
122 Opnd_Type
: Entity_Id
:= Empty
);
123 -- Add (E, T) to the list of interpretations of the node being resolved.
124 -- For calls and operators, i.e. for nodes that have a name field,
125 -- E is an overloadable entity, and T is its type. For constructs such
126 -- as indexed expressions, the caller sets E equal to T, because the
127 -- overloading comes from other fields, and the node itself has no name
128 -- to resolve. Hidden denotes whether an interpretation has been disabled
129 -- by an abstract operator. Add_One_Interp includes semantic processing to
130 -- deal with adding entries that hide one another etc.
132 -- For operators, the legality of the operation depends on the visibility
133 -- of T and its scope. If the operator is an equality or comparison, T is
134 -- always Boolean, and we use Opnd_Type, which is a candidate type for one
135 -- of the operands of N, to check visibility.
137 procedure End_Interp_List
;
138 -- End the list of interpretations of current node
140 procedure Get_First_Interp
142 I
: out Interp_Index
;
144 -- Initialize iteration over set of interpretations for Node N. The first
145 -- interpretation is placed in It, and I is initialized for subsequent
146 -- calls to Get_Next_Interp.
148 procedure Get_Next_Interp
(I
: in out Interp_Index
; It
: out Interp
);
149 -- Iteration step over set of interpretations. Using the value in I, which
150 -- was set by a previous call to Get_First_Interp or Get_Next_Interp, the
151 -- next interpretation is placed in It, and I is updated for the next call.
152 -- The end of the list of interpretations is signalled by It.Nam = Empty.
154 procedure Remove_Interp
(I
: in out Interp_Index
);
155 -- Remove an interpretation that his hidden by another, or that does not
156 -- match the context. The value of I on input was set by a call to either
157 -- Get_First_Interp or Get_Next_Interp and references the interpretation
158 -- to be removed. The only allowed use of the exit value of I is as input
159 -- to a subsequent call to Get_Next_Interp, which yields the interpretation
160 -- following the removed one.
162 procedure Save_Interps
(Old_N
: Node_Id
; New_N
: Node_Id
);
163 -- If an overloaded node is rewritten during semantic analysis, its
164 -- possible interpretations must be linked to the copy. This procedure
165 -- transfers the overload information from Old_N, the old node, to
166 -- New_N, its new copy. It has no effect in the non-overloaded case.
168 function Covers
(T1
, T2
: Entity_Id
) return Boolean;
169 -- This is the basic type compatibility routine. T1 is the expected
170 -- type, imposed by context, and T2 is the actual type. The processing
171 -- reflects both the definition of type coverage and the rules
172 -- for operand matching.
174 function Disambiguate
176 I1
, I2
: Interp_Index
;
179 -- If more than one interpretation of a name in a call is legal, apply
180 -- preference rules (universal types first) and operator visibility in
181 -- order to remove ambiguity. I1 and I2 are the first two interpretations
182 -- that are compatible with the context, but there may be others.
184 function Entity_Matches_Spec
(Old_S
, New_S
: Entity_Id
) return Boolean;
185 -- To resolve subprogram renaming and default formal subprograms in generic
186 -- definitions. Old_S is a possible interpretation of the entity being
187 -- renamed, New_S has an explicit signature. If Old_S is a subprogram, as
188 -- opposed to an operator, type and mode conformance are required.
190 function Find_Unique_Type
(L
: Node_Id
; R
: Node_Id
) return Entity_Id
;
191 -- Used in second pass of resolution, for equality and comparison nodes.
192 -- L is the left operand, whose type is known to be correct, and R is
193 -- the right operand, which has one interpretation compatible with that
194 -- of L. Return the type intersection of the two.
196 function Has_Compatible_Type
200 -- Verify that some interpretation of the node N has a type compatible
201 -- with Typ. If N is not overloaded, then its unique type must be
202 -- compatible with Typ. Otherwise iterate through the interpretations
203 -- of N looking for a compatible one.
205 function Hides_Op
(F
: Entity_Id
; Op
: Entity_Id
) return Boolean;
206 -- A user-defined function hides a predefined operator if it is
207 -- matches the signature of the operator, and is declared in an
208 -- open scope, or in the scope of the result type.
210 function Interface_Present_In_Ancestor
212 Iface
: Entity_Id
) return Boolean;
213 -- Ada 2005 (AI-251): Typ must be a tagged record type/subtype and Iface
214 -- must be an abstract interface type (or a class-wide abstract interface).
215 -- This function is used to check if Typ or some ancestor of Typ implements
216 -- Iface (returning True only if so).
218 function Intersect_Types
(L
, R
: Node_Id
) return Entity_Id
;
219 -- Find the common interpretation to two analyzed nodes. If one of the
220 -- interpretations is universal, choose the non-universal one. If either
221 -- node is overloaded, find single common interpretation.
223 function Is_Ancestor
(T1
, T2
: Entity_Id
) return Boolean;
224 -- T1 is a tagged type (not class-wide). Verify that it is one of the
225 -- ancestors of type T2 (which may or not be class-wide)
227 function Is_Subtype_Of
(T1
: Entity_Id
; T2
: Entity_Id
) return Boolean;
228 -- Checks whether T1 is any subtype of T2 directly or indirectly. Applies
229 -- only to scalar subtypes ???
231 function Operator_Matches_Spec
(Op
, New_S
: Entity_Id
) return Boolean;
232 -- Used to resolve subprograms renaming operators, and calls to user
233 -- defined operators. Determines whether a given operator Op, matches
234 -- a specification, New_S.
236 procedure Set_Abstract_Op
(I
: Interp_Index
; V
: Entity_Id
);
237 -- Set the abstract operation field of an interpretation
239 function Valid_Comparison_Arg
(T
: Entity_Id
) return Boolean;
240 -- A valid argument to an ordering operator must be a discrete type, a
241 -- real type, or a one dimensional array with a discrete component type.
243 function Valid_Boolean_Arg
(T
: Entity_Id
) return Boolean;
244 -- A valid argument of a boolean operator is either some boolean type,
245 -- or a one-dimensional array of boolean type.
247 procedure Write_Interp_Ref
(Map_Ptr
: Int
);
248 -- Debugging procedure to display entry in Interp_Map. Would not be
249 -- needed if it were possible to debug instantiations of Table.
251 procedure Write_Overloads
(N
: Node_Id
);
252 -- Debugging procedure to output info on possibly overloaded entities
253 -- for specified node.