FIRM_API ir_entity *new_d_entity(ir_type *owner, ident *name, ir_type *tp,
dbg_info *db);
+/**
+ * Creates a new entity corresponding to a function parameter.
+ * This must be created on an irgs frame_type
+ */
+FIRM_API ir_entity *new_parameter_entity(ir_type *owner, size_t pos,
+ ir_type *type);
+
+/**
+ * Like new_parameter_entity() but with debug information.
+ */
+FIRM_API ir_entity *new_d_parameter_entity(ir_type *owner, size_t pos,
+ ir_type *type, dbg_info *dbgi);
+
/**
* Copies the entity if the new_owner is different from the
* owner of the old entity, else returns the old entity.
*/
FIRM_API void set_entity_dbg_info(ir_entity *ent, dbg_info *db);
+#define IR_VA_START_PARAMETER_NUMBER ((size_t)-1)
+
+/**
+ * returns true if a given entity is a parameter_entity representing the
+ * address of a function parameter
+ */
+FIRM_API int is_parameter_entity(const ir_entity *entity);
+
+/**
+ * returns number of parameter a parameter entitiy represents
+ */
+FIRM_API size_t get_entity_parameter_number(const ir_entity *entity);
+
+/**
+ * set number of parameter an entity represents
+ */
+FIRM_API void set_entity_parameter_number(ir_entity *entity, size_t n);
+
/* -- Representation of constant values of entities -- */
/**
* Returns true if the the node is representable as code on
FIRM_API size_t get_method_n_params(const ir_type *method);
/** Returns the type of the parameter at position pos of a method. */
-FIRM_API ir_type *get_method_param_type(ir_type *method, size_t pos);
+FIRM_API ir_type *get_method_param_type(const ir_type *method, size_t pos);
/** Sets the type of the parameter at position pos of a method.
Also changes the type in the pass-by-value representation by just
changing the type of the corresponding entity if the representation is constructed. */
FIRM_API void set_method_param_type(ir_type *method, size_t pos, ir_type *tp);
-/** Returns an entity that represents the copied value argument. Only necessary
- for compounds passed by value. This information is constructed only on demand. */
-FIRM_API ir_entity *get_method_value_param_ent(ir_type *method, size_t pos);
-/**
- * Sets the type that represents the copied value arguments.
- */
-FIRM_API void set_method_value_param_type(ir_type *method, ir_type *tp);
-/**
- * Returns a type that represents the copied value arguments if one
- * was allocated, else NULL.
- */
-FIRM_API ir_type *get_method_value_param_type(const ir_type *method);
/** Returns the number of results of a method type. */
FIRM_API size_t get_method_n_ress(const ir_type *method);
/** Returns the return type of a method type at position pos. */
-FIRM_API ir_type *get_method_res_type(ir_type *method, size_t pos);
+FIRM_API ir_type *get_method_res_type(const ir_type *method, size_t pos);
/** Sets the type of the result at position pos of a method.
Also changes the type in the pass-by-value representation by just
changing the type of the corresponding entity if the representation is constructed. */
*/
FIRM_API int is_frame_type(const ir_type *tp);
-/**
- * Checks, whether a type is a value parameter type.
- */
-FIRM_API int is_value_param_type(const ir_type *tp);
-
-/**
- * Makes a new value type. Value types are struct types,
- * so all struct access functions work.
- * Value types are not in the global list of types.
- */
-FIRM_API ir_type *new_type_value(void);
-
/**
* Makes a new frame type. Frame types are class types,
* so all class access functions work.