1/* Routines dealing with ObjC encoding of types
2 Copyright (C) 1992-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4This file is part of GCC.
5
6GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
9any later version.
10
11GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14GNU General Public License for more details.
15
16You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see
18<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19
20#ifndef GCC_OBJC_ENCODING_H
21#define GCC_OBJC_ENCODING_H
22
23/* This is used to initialize the obstacks used by encoding. It
24 should be called before any encoding function is used. It is
25 usually done in objc_init(). */
26extern void objc_encoding_init (void);
27
28/* Encode a method prototype. The format is described in
29 gcc/doc/objc.texi, section 'Method signatures'. */
30extern tree encode_method_prototype (tree method_decl);
31
32/* This is used to implement @encode(). See gcc/doc/objc.texi,
33 section '@encode'. */
34extern tree objc_build_encode_expr (tree type);
35
36/* (Decide if these can ever be validly changed.) */
37#define OBJC_ENCODE_INLINE_DEFS 0
38#define OBJC_ENCODE_DONT_INLINE_DEFS 1
39
40/* Encode the attributes of a property. */
41extern tree objc_v2_encode_prop_attr (tree property);
42
43/* Encode the type of a field. Return an identifier with the type
44 encoding for the field. The type encoding is a null-terminated
45 string. */
46extern tree encode_field_decl (tree field_decl);
47
48/* Tells "encode_pointer/encode_aggregate" whether we are generating
49 type descriptors for instance variables (as opposed to methods).
50 Type descriptors for instance variables contain more information
51 than methods (for static typing and embedded structures).
52
53 TODO: Replace this global variable with an argument that is passed
54 to the various encode() functions.
55
56 TODO: Change it to a 'bool'. */
57extern int generating_instance_variables;
58
59#endif /* GCC_OBJC_ENCODING_H */
60

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