+
+/** Enable/Disable optimization of dynamic method dispatch.
+ *
+ * This flag enables/disables the optimization of dynamic method dispatch.
+ * If the flag is turned on Sel nodes can be replaced by Const nodes representing
+ * the address of a function.
+ */
+void set_opt_dyn_meth_dispatch (int value);
+int get_opt_dyn_meth_dispatch (void);
+
+/** Enable/Disable type optimization of cast nodes.
+ *
+ * Controls the optimizations in tropt.h. Default: on.
+ */
+void set_opt_optimize_class_casts (int value);
+void set_opt_optimize_class_casts_verbose (int value);
+
+/** Restricts the behavior of cast optimization.
+ *
+ * If set, downcast are not optimized if they might be
+ * illegal as in (Super)(Sub) (new Super()). Default:
+ * 0 == not suppressed.
+ */
+void set_opt_suppress_downcast_optimization(int value);
+int get_opt_suppress_downcast_optimization(void);
+
+/** Enable/Disable optimization of tail-recursion calls.
+ *
+ * This flag enables/disables the optimization tail-recursion call.
+ * If the flag is turned on tail-recursion calls are optimized into loops.
+ */
+void set_opt_tail_recursion(int value);
+void set_opt_tail_recursion_verbose(int value);
+
+/** Enable/Disable floating of fragile ops.
+ *
+ * This flags enables/disables the floating of fragile operations.
+ * If this flag is on, fragile operations which are known to NOT raise
+ * an exception can be place to other basic blocks.
+ * Otherwise they remain in the block they were created.
+ */
+void set_opt_fragile_ops(int value);
+
+/**
+ * Enable/Disable if conversion.
+ *
+ * If conversion tries to turn Conds into Mux nodes to eliminate
+ * control flow.
+ */
+void set_opt_if_conversion(int value);
+
+/**
+ * Enable/Disable function call optimization.
+ *
+ * Function call optimization detects const and pure functions and
+ * allows the CSE of Call nodes. A const function is one that
+ * do only evaluate it's parameters and did not read or write memory
+ * to compute its results. Pure functions are allowed to read global memory.
+ */
+void set_opt_function_call(int value);
+
+/**
+ * Enable/Disable Confirm node removal during local optimization.
+ */
+void set_opt_remove_confirm(int value);
+
+/**
+ * Enable/Disable scalar replacement optimization.
+ */
+void set_opt_scalar_replacement(int value);
+void set_opt_scalar_replacement_verbose(int value);
+
+/**
+ * Enable/Disable Null exception in Load and Store nodes only.
+ *
+ * If enabled, only Null pointer exception can occur at Load and
+ * store nodes. If it can be proved that the address input of these
+ * nodes is non-null, the exception edge can safely be removed.
+ * If disabled, other exceptions (like unaligned access, read-only memory,
+ * etc.) can occur.
+ *
+ * This flag is enabled by default.
+ */
+void set_opt_ldst_only_null_ptr_exceptions(int value);
+
+/**
+ * Enable/Disable Selection based Null pointer check elimination.
+ *
+ * In languages, where all addresses are always Sel nodes, Null
+ * pointers can only occur as input to Sel nodes.
+ * If Null pointers are the only source for exceptions in Load and
+ * Store nodes (as typical in high level languages), we can eliminate
+ * exception edges from Load and Store when can prove that the Sel
+ * nodes representing the Load/Store address have non-null inputs.
+ * Enabling this flag enables this elimination.
+ *
+ * Enabling this flag is meaningless if ldst_non_null_exceptions is
+ * enabled.
+ *
+ * This flags should be set for Java style languages.
+ */
+void set_opt_sel_based_null_check_elim(int value);
+
+/**
+ * Enable/Disable Automatic construction of Sync nodes during
+ * Firm construction.
+ *
+ * If this flags is set, sequential non-volatile Loads are automatically
+ * rearranged so that they can be executed in parallel by creating Sync nodes.
+ *
+ * This flags should be set for Java style languages.
+ */
+void set_opt_auto_create_sync(int value);
+
+/** Enable/Disable normalizations of the firm representation.
+ *
+ * This flag guards transformations that normalize the Firm representation
+ * as removing Ids and Tuples, useless Phis, replacing SymConst(id) by
+ * Const(entity) and others.
+ * The transformations guarded by this flag are not guarded by flag
+ * "optimize".
+ * Many algorithms operating on Firm can not deal with constructs in
+ * the non-normalized representation.
+ * default: ON
+ *
+ * @note ATTENTION: not all such transformations are guarded by a flag.
+ */
+void set_opt_normalize (int value);
+
+/** Enable/Disable precise exception context.
+ *
+ * If enabled, all exceptions form a barrier for values, as in the
+ * following example:
+ *
+ * @code
+ * a = 1;
+ * b = 3 / 0;
+ * a = 2;
+ * @endcode
+ *
+ * If precise exception handling is enabled, an exception handler see a == 1,
+ * else it might see a == 2.
+ * Enable this for languages with strict exception order like Java.
+ */
+void set_opt_precise_exc_context(int value);
+
+/** Enable/Disable Alias analysis.
+ *
+ * If enabled, memory disambiguation by alias analysis is used.
+ */
+void set_opt_alias_analysis(int value);
+
+/** Enable/Disable closed world assumption.
+ *
+ * If enabled, optimizations expect to know the "whole world", i.e. no
+ * external types or callers exist.
+ * This enables some powerful optimizations.
+ */
+void set_opt_closed_world(int value);
+
+/**
+ * Save the current optimization state.
+ */
+void save_optimization_state(optimization_state_t *state);
+
+/**
+ * Restore the current optimization state.
+ */
+void restore_optimization_state(const optimization_state_t *state);
+
+/**
+ * Switches ALL optimizations off.
+ */
+void all_optimizations_off(void);
+
+/**
+ * Possible verification modes.
+ */
+typedef enum _firm_verification_t {
+ FIRM_VERIFICATION_OFF = 0, /**< do not verify nodes at all */
+ FIRM_VERIFICATION_ON = 1, /**< do node verification and assert on error in debug version */
+ FIRM_VERIFICATION_REPORT = 2, /**< do node verification, but report to stderr only */
+ FIRM_VERIFICATION_ERROR_ONLY = 3 /**< do node verification, but NEVER do assert nor report */
+} firm_verification_t;
+
+/** Select verification of IR nodes and types.
+ *
+ * Per default the verification is in mode NODE_VERIFICATION_ASSERT.
+ * Turn the verification off during development to check partial implementations.
+ */
+void do_node_verification(firm_verification_t mode);