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26
27with Types; use Types;
28
29package Freeze is
30
31   --------------------------
32   -- Handling of Freezing --
33   --------------------------
34
35   --  In the formal Ada semantics, freezing of entities occurs at a well
36   --  defined point, described in (RM 13.14). The model in GNAT of freezing
37   --  is that a Freeze_Entity node is generated at the point where an entity
38   --  is frozen, and the entity contains a pointer (Freeze_Node) to this
39   --  generated freeze node.
40
41   --  The freeze node is processed in the expander to generate associated
42   --  data and subprograms (e.g. an initialization procedure) which must
43   --  be delayed until the type is frozen and its representation can be
44   --  fully determined. Subsequently the freeze node is used by Gigi to
45   --  determine the point at which it should elaborate the corresponding
46   --  entity (this elaboration also requires the representation of the
47   --  entity to be fully determinable). The freeze node is also used to
48   --  provide additional diagnostic information (pinpointing the freeze
49   --  point), when order of freezing errors are detected.
50
51   --  If we were fully faithful to the Ada model, we would generate freeze
52   --  nodes for all entities, but that is a bit heavy so we optimize (that
53   --  is the nice word) or cut corners (which is a bit more honest). For
54   --  many entities, we do not need to delay the freeze and instead can
55   --  freeze them at the point of declaration. The conditions for this
56   --  early freezing being permissible are as follows:
57
58   --    There is no associated expander activity that needs to be delayed
59
60   --    Gigi can fully elaborate the entity at the point of occurrence (or,
61   --    equivalently, no real elaboration is required for the entity).
62
63   --  In order for these conditions to be met (especially the second), it
64   --  must be the case that all representation characteristics of the entity
65   --  can be determined at declaration time.
66
67   --  The following indicates how freezing is handled for all entity kinds:
68
69   --    Types
70
71   --      All declared types have freeze nodes, as well as anonymous base
72   --      types created for type declarations where the defining identifier
73   --      is a first subtype of the anonymous type.
74
75   --    Subtypes
76
77   --      All first subtypes have freeze nodes. Other subtypes need freeze
78   --      nodes if the corresponding base type has not yet been frozen. If
79   --      the base type has been frozen, then there is no need for a freeze
80   --      node, since no rep clauses can appear for the subtype in any case.
81
82   --    Implicit types and subtypes
83
84   --      As noted above, implicit base types always have freeze nodes. Other
85   --      implicit types and subtypes typically do not require freeze nodes,
86   --      because there is no possibility of delaying any information about
87   --      their representation.
88
89   --    Subprograms
90   --
91   --      Are frozen at the point of declaration unless one or more of the
92   --      formal types or return type themselves have delayed freezing and
93   --      are not yet frozen. This includes the case of a formal access type
94   --      where the designated type is not frozen. Note that we are talking
95   --      about subprogram specs here (subprogram body entities have no
96   --      relevance), and in any case, subprogram bodies freeze everything.
97
98   --    Objects with dynamic address clauses
99   --
100   --      These have a delayed freeze. Gigi will generate code to evaluate
101   --      the initialization expression if present and store it in a temp.
102   --      The actual object is created at the point of the freeze, and if
103   --      necessary initialized by copying the value of this temporary.
104
105   --    Formal Parameters
106   --
107   --      Are frozen when the associated subprogram is frozen, so there is
108   --      never any need for them to have delayed freezing.
109
110   --    Other Objects
111   --
112   --      Are always frozen at the point of declaration
113
114   --    All Other Entities
115
116   --      Are always frozen at the point of declaration
117
118   --  The flag Has_Delayed_Freeze is used for to indicate that delayed
119   --  freezing is required. Usually the associated freeze node is allocated
120   --  at the freezing point. One special exception occurs with anonymous
121   --  base types, where the freeze node is preallocated at the point of
122   --  declaration, so that the First_Subtype_Link field can be set.
123
124   -----------------
125   -- Subprograms --
126   -----------------
127
128   function Build_Renamed_Body
129     (Decl  : Node_Id;
130      New_S : Entity_Id) return Node_Id;
131   --  Rewrite renaming declaration as a subprogram body, whose single
132   --  statement is a call to the renamed entity. New_S is the entity that
133   --  appears in the renaming declaration. If this is a Renaming_As_Body,
134   --  then Decl is the original subprogram declaration that is completed
135   --  by the renaming, otherwise it is the renaming declaration itself.
136   --  The caller inserts the body where required. If this call comes
137   --  from a freezing action, the resulting body is analyzed at once.
138
139   procedure Check_Compile_Time_Size (T : Entity_Id);
140   --  Check to see whether the size of the type T is known at compile time.
141   --  There are three possible cases:
142   --
143   --    Size is not known at compile time. In this case, the call has no
144   --    effect. Note that the processing is conservative here, in the sense
145   --    that this routine may decide that the size is not known even if in
146   --    fact Gigi decides it is known, but the opposite situation can never
147   --    occur.
148   --
149   --    Size is known at compile time, but the actual value of the size is
150   --    not known to the front end or is definitely 32 or more. In this case
151   --    Size_Known_At_Compile_Time is set, but the Esize field is left set
152   --    to zero (to be set by Gigi).
153   --
154   --    Size is known at compile time, and the actual value of the size is
155   --    known to the front end and is less than 32. In this case, the flag
156   --    Size_Known_At_Compile_Time is set, and in addition Esize is set to
157   --    the required size, allowing for possible front end packing of an
158   --    array using this type as a component type.
159   --
160   --  Note: the flag Size_Known_At_Compile_Time is used to determine if the
161   --  secondary stack must be used to return a value of the type, and also
162   --  to determine whether a component clause is allowed for a component
163   --  of the given type.
164   --
165   --  Note: this is public because of one dubious use in Sem_Res???
166   --
167   --  Note: Check_Compile_Time_Size does not test the case of the size being
168   --  known because a size clause is specifically given. That is because we
169   --  do not allow a size clause if the size would not otherwise be known at
170   --  compile time in any case.
171
172   procedure Expand_Atomic_Aggregate (E : Entity_Id; Typ : Entity_Id);
173   --  If an atomic object is initialized with an aggregate or is assigned
174   --  an aggregate, we have to prevent a piecemeal access or assignment
175   --  to the object, even if the aggregate is to be expanded. we create
176   --  a temporary for the aggregate, and assign the temporary instead,
177   --  so that the back end can generate an atomic move for it.
178
179   function Freeze_Entity (E : Entity_Id; Loc : Source_Ptr) return List_Id;
180   --  Freeze an entity, and return Freeze nodes, to be inserted at the
181   --  point of call. Loc is a source location which corresponds to the
182   --  freeze point. This is used in placing warning messages in the
183   --  situation where it appears that a type has been frozen too early,
184   --  e.g. when a primitive operation is declared after the freezing
185   --  point of its tagged type. Returns No_List if no freeze nodes needed.
186
187   procedure Freeze_All (From : Entity_Id; After : in out Node_Id);
188   --  Before a non-instance body, or at the end of a declarative part
189   --  freeze all entities therein that are not yet frozen. Calls itself
190   --  recursively to catch types in inner packages that were not frozen
191   --  at the inner level because they were not yet completely defined.
192   --  This routine also analyzes and freezes default parameter expressions
193   --  in subprogram specifications (this has to be delayed until all the
194   --  types are frozen). The resulting freeze nodes are inserted just
195   --  after node After (which is a list node) and analyzed. On return,
196   --  'After' is updated to point to the last node inserted (or is returned
197   --  unchanged if no nodes were inserted). 'From' is the last entity frozen
198   --  in the scope. It is used to prevent a quadratic traversal over already
199   --  frozen entities.
200
201   procedure Freeze_Before (N : Node_Id; T : Entity_Id);
202   --  Freeze T then Insert the generated Freeze nodes before the node N.
203
204   procedure Freeze_Expression (N : Node_Id);
205   --  Freezes the required entities when the Expression N causes freezing.
206   --  The node N here is either a subexpression node (a "real" expression)
207   --  or a subtype mark, or a subtype indication. The latter two cases are
208   --  not really expressions, but they can appear within expressions and
209   --  so need to be similarly treated. Freeze_Expression takes care of
210   --  determining the proper insertion point for generated freeze actions.
211
212   procedure Freeze_Fixed_Point_Type (Typ : Entity_Id);
213   --  Freeze fixed point type. For fixed-point types, we have to defer
214   --  setting the size and bounds till the freeze point, since they are
215   --  potentially affected by the presence of size and small clauses.
216
217   procedure Freeze_Itype (T : Entity_Id; N : Node_Id);
218   --  This routine is called when an Itype is created and must be frozen
219   --  immediately at the point of creation (for the sake of the expansion
220   --  activities in Exp_Ch3 (for example, the creation of packed array
221   --  types). We can't just let Freeze_Expression do this job since it
222   --  goes out of its way to make sure that the freeze node occurs at a
223   --  point outside the current construct, e.g. outside the expression or
224   --  outside the initialization procedure. That's normally right, but
225   --  not in this case, since if we create an Itype in an expression it
226   --  may be the case that it is not always elaborated (for example it
227   --  may result from the right operand of a short circuit). In this case
228   --  we want the freeze node to be inserted at the same point as the Itype.
229   --  The node N provides both the location for the freezing and also the
230   --  insertion point for the resulting freeze nodes.
231
232end Freeze;
233