+/** Returns the classification of the mode */
+modecode get_mode_modecode(const ir_mode *mode);
+
+/** Returns the ident* of the mode */
+ident *get_mode_ident(const ir_mode *mode);
+
+/** Returns the null-terminated name of this mode. */
+const char *get_mode_name(const ir_mode *mode);
+
+/** Returns a coarse classification of the mode. */
+mode_sort get_mode_sort(const ir_mode *mode);
+
+/** Returns the size of values of the mode in bits. */
+int get_mode_size_bits(const ir_mode *mode);
+
+/** Returns the size of values of the mode in bytes.
+ * If the size is not dividable by 8 returns -1. */
+int get_mode_size_bytes(const ir_mode *mode);
+
+/** Returns the signess of a mode.
+ *
+ * Returns the signess of a mode: 1 if mode is signed. */
+int get_mode_sign(const ir_mode *mode);
+
+/** Returns the arithmetic of a mode */
+int get_mode_arithmetic(const ir_mode *mode);
+
+/** Get the modulo shift attribute.
+ *
+ * Attribute modulo shift specifies for modes of kind irms_int_number
+ * whether shift applies modulo to value of bits to shift. Zero for
+ * modes that are not integer.
+ */
+unsigned int get_mode_modulo_shift(const ir_mode *mode);
+
+/** Return the number of vector elements.
+ *
+ * Attribute vector_elem specifies the number of vector elements of
+ * a vector mode. For non-vector modes it returns 1 for data and 0
+ * for all other modes
+ */
+unsigned int get_mode_n_vector_elems(const ir_mode *mode);
+
+/** Returns the stored intermediate information. */
+void *get_mode_link(const ir_mode *mode);
+
+/** Stores new intermediate information. */
+void set_mode_link(ir_mode *mode, void *l);
+
+/**
+ * Returns the smallest representable value of a given mode.
+ *
+ * For modes of the sort float_number this is the most negative value
+ * bigger than -infinite.
+ */