Modifications to dyn_cast/cast to make them work for objects too, instead of only...
authorArgyrios Kyrtzidis <akyrtzi@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:49:24 +0000 (22:49 +0000)
committerArgyrios Kyrtzidis <akyrtzi@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 Aug 2009 22:49:24 +0000 (22:49 +0000)
commit8b6d86df062f9402c0cde66eb6c7013afb414285
tree4237efdde392811e306b15dcfef4e75f410f13ba
parentc114ed711eca29e735e10956883a1010c22d7942
Modifications to dyn_cast/cast to make them work for objects too, instead of only pointers.

The use case is if you have a wrapper class:

class Base {
  void *Ptr;
public:
  Base() : Ptr(0) { }
  operator bool() const { return Ptr; }
.....
}

and sub-wrappers that have exactly the same size:

class Sub : public Base {
public:
....
static bool classof(const Base*);
}

and in the code you would do:

void f(Base b) {
  Sub sub = dyn_cast<Sub>(b);
  if (sub) {
    ....
  }
}

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@78424 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
include/llvm/Support/Casting.h