1 /* Hooks to abstract the runtime meta-data generation for Objective C.
2 Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Contributed by Iain Sandoe
5 This file is part of GCC.
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19 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
21 #ifndef _OBJC_RUNTIME_HOOKS_H_
22 #define _OBJC_RUNTIME_HOOKS_H_
24 /* A set of hooks for the front end to obtain runtime-specific actions. */
26 /* Objective-C supports several runtime library variants:
28 "GNU" runtime selected by -fgnu-runtime (currently at ABI version 8).
29 "NeXT" runtime (selected by -fnext-runtime) and installed on OSX/Darwin
30 systems at API version 1 (for m32 code) and version 2 (for m64 code).
32 The runtimes require different data types/layouts, method call mechanisms
33 and so on, and the purpose of this interface is to abstract such
34 differences from the parser's perspective. */
36 /* TODO: Do we want the initial underscore ? */
37 typedef struct _objc_runtime_hooks_r
39 /* TODO: Expand comments in this file. */
41 /* Initialize for this runtime. */
42 void (*initialize
) (void);
43 const char *default_constant_string_class_name
;
45 /* FIXME: Having to check this name should not be necessary. */
46 const char *tag_getclass
;
47 /* id for superclass class field - named differently in the existing
49 tree (*super_superclassfield_ident
) (void);
51 /* Obtain a class decl for the identifier. */
52 tree (*class_decl
) (tree
);
53 /* Obtain a metaclass decl for the identifier. */
54 tree (*metaclass_decl
) (tree
);
55 /* Obtain a category decl for the identifier. */
56 tree (*category_decl
) (tree
);
57 /* Obtain a protocol decl for the identifier. */
58 tree (*protocol_decl
) (tree
);
59 /* Obtain a string decl, to be placed in the nominated string-section. */
60 tree (*string_decl
) (tree
, const char *, string_section
);
62 /* Obtain a class reference, generating the fwd def. if necessary. */
63 tree (*get_class_reference
) (tree
);
64 /* build/get selector reference. */
65 tree (*build_selector_reference
) (location_t
, tree
, tree
);
66 /* Get a protocol reference, generating the forward def. if necessary. */
67 tree (*get_protocol_reference
) (location_t
, tree
);
68 /* Get an ivar ref. re the base. */
69 tree (*build_ivar_reference
) (location_t
, tree
, tree
);
70 /* Get a reference to {meta}class' super. */
71 tree (*get_class_super_ref
) (location_t
, struct imp_entry
*, bool);
72 /* Get a reference to Category {meta}class' super. */
73 tree (*get_category_super_ref
) (location_t
, struct imp_entry
*, bool);
75 /* Receiver is class Object, check runtime-specific. */
76 tree (*receiver_is_class_object
) (tree
);
77 /* Get the start of a method argument type list (receiver, _cmd). */
78 void (*get_arg_type_list_base
) (vec
<tree
, va_gc
> **, tree
, int, int);
79 /* Build method call. */
80 tree (*build_objc_method_call
) (location_t
, tree
, tree
, tree
, tree
, tree
, int);
82 /* Check for or otherwise handle a request to check that the constant
83 string class reference is set-up & OK. */
84 bool (*setup_const_string_class_decl
) (void);
85 /* Return the tree reprenting a const string constructor for the arg.
86 Most of the data are in global trees. */
87 tree (*build_const_string_constructor
) (location_t
, tree
, int);
90 tree (*build_throw_stmt
) (location_t
, tree
, bool);
91 tree (*build_exc_ptr
) (struct objc_try_context
**);
92 tree (*begin_catch
) (struct objc_try_context
**, tree
, tree
, tree
, bool);
93 void (*finish_catch
) (struct objc_try_context
**, tree
);
94 tree (*finish_try_stmt
) (struct objc_try_context
**);
96 /* Emit all the metadata required by the runtime - based on the tables built
98 void (*generate_metadata
) (void);
100 } objc_runtime_hooks
;
102 /* For shared support that needs to access these. */
103 extern objc_runtime_hooks runtime
;
105 /* One per runtime at present.
106 TODO: Make into some kind of configury-generated table. */
107 extern bool objc_gnu_runtime_abi_01_init (objc_runtime_hooks
*);
108 extern bool objc_next_runtime_abi_01_init (objc_runtime_hooks
*);
109 extern bool objc_next_runtime_abi_02_init (objc_runtime_hooks
*);
111 #endif /* _OBJC_RUNTIME_HOOKS_H_ */