Kill ModuleProvider and ghost linkage by inverting the relationship between

[oota-llvm.git] / include / llvm / GlobalValue.h

diff --git a/include/llvm/GlobalValue.h b/include/llvm/GlobalValue.h
index d53d49bfec1097b80ada39aee0f5e7d7cfa8439d..1ac7eeea334d7631ccbf1c6b8ee27d0bfbba61a9 100644 (file)
--- a/include/llvm/GlobalValue.h
+++ b/include/llvm/GlobalValue.h
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ public:
     DLLImportLinkage,   ///< Function to be imported from DLL
     DLLExportLinkage,   ///< Function to be accessible from DLL.
     ExternalWeakLinkage,///< ExternalWeak linkage description.
-    GhostLinkage,       ///< Stand-in functions for streaming fns from BC files.
     CommonLinkage       ///< Tentative definitions.
   };
 
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ public:
 
 protected:
   GlobalValue(const Type *ty, ValueTy vty, Use *Ops, unsigned NumOps,
-              LinkageTypes linkage, const Twine &Name = "")
+              LinkageTypes linkage, const Twine &Name)
     : Constant(ty, vty, Ops, NumOps), Parent(0),
       Linkage(linkage), Visibility(DefaultVisibility), Alignment(0) {
     setName(Name);
@@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ public:
   
   bool hasSection() const { return !Section.empty(); }
   const std::string &getSection() const { return Section; }
-  void setSection(const std::string &S) { Section = S; }
+  void setSection(StringRef S) { Section = S; }
   
   /// If the usage is empty (except transitively dead constants), then this
   /// global value can can be safely deleted since the destructor will
@@ -132,7 +131,6 @@ public:
   bool hasDLLImportLinkage() const { return Linkage == DLLImportLinkage; }
   bool hasDLLExportLinkage() const { return Linkage == DLLExportLinkage; }
   bool hasExternalWeakLinkage() const { return Linkage == ExternalWeakLinkage; }
-  bool hasGhostLinkage() const { return Linkage == GhostLinkage; }
   bool hasCommonLinkage() const { return Linkage == CommonLinkage; }
 
   void setLinkage(LinkageTypes LT) { Linkage = LT; }
@@ -164,12 +162,33 @@ public:
   /// create a GlobalValue) from the GlobalValue Src to this one.
   virtual void copyAttributesFrom(const GlobalValue *Src);
 
-  /// hasNotBeenReadFromBitcode - If a module provider is being used to lazily
-  /// stream in functions from disk, this method can be used to check to see if
-  /// the function has been read in yet or not.  Unless you are working on the
-  /// JIT or something else that streams stuff in lazily, you don't need to
-  /// worry about this.
-  bool hasNotBeenReadFromBitcode() const { return Linkage == GhostLinkage; }
+/// @name Materialization
+/// Materialization is used to construct functions only as they're needed. This
+/// is useful to reduce memory usage in LLVM or parsing work done by the
+/// BitcodeReader to load the Module.
+/// @{
+
+  /// isMaterializable - If this function's Module is being lazily streamed in
+  /// functions from disk or some other source, this method can be used to check
+  /// to see if the function has been read in yet or not.
+  bool isMaterializable() const;
+
+  /// isDematerializable - Returns true if this function was loaded from a
+  /// GVMaterializer that's still attached to its Module and that knows how to
+  /// dematerialize the function.
+  bool isDematerializable() const;
+
+  /// Materialize - make sure this GlobalValue is fully read.  If the module is
+  /// corrupt, this returns true and fills in the optional string with
+  /// information about the problem.  If successful, this returns false.
+  bool Materialize(std::string *ErrInfo = 0);
+
+  /// Dematerialize - If this GlobalValue is read in, and if the GVMaterializer
+  /// supports it, release the memory for the function, and set it up to be
+  /// materialized lazily.  If !isDematerializable(), this method is a noop.
+  void Dematerialize();
+
+/// @}
 
   /// Override from Constant class. No GlobalValue's are null values so this
   /// always returns false.