*/
typedef void merge_sets_func(ir_node **new_node_array, int new_num_entries, ir_node **old_node_array, int old_num_entries, dbg_action action);
+/**
+ * The type of the debug info to human readable string function.
+ *
+ * @param buf pointer to a buffer that will hold the info
+ * @param len length of the buffer
+ * @param dbg the debug info
+ *
+ * @return Number of written characters to the buffer.
+ *
+ * @see dbg_init()
+ */
+typedef unsigned snprint_dbg_func(char *buf, unsigned len, const dbg_info *dbg);
+
/**
* Initializes the debug support.
*
* @param dbg_info_merge_pair see function description
* @param dbg_info_merge_sets see function description
+ * @param snprint_dbg see function description
*
* This function takes Pointers to two functions that merge the
* debug information when a
*
* Further both functions pass an enumeration indicating the action
* performed by the transformation, e.g. the kind of optimization performed.
+ *
+ * The third argument snprint_dbg is called to convert a debug info into a human readable string.
+ * This string is the dumped in the dumper functions.
+ *
+ * Note that if NULL is passed for dbg_info_merge_pair or dbg_info_merge_sets, the default
+ * implementations default_dbg_info_merge_pair() and default_dbg_info_merge_sets() are used.
+ * NULL passed for snprint_dbg means no output.
*/
-void dbg_init(merge_pair_func *dbg_info_merge_pair, merge_sets_func *dbg_info_merge_sets);
+void dbg_init(merge_pair_func *dbg_info_merge_pair, merge_sets_func *dbg_info_merge_sets, snprint_dbg_func *snprint_dbg);
/** @} */
+/**
+ * The default merge_pair_func implementation, simply copies the debug info
+ * from old to new.
+ */
+void default_dbg_info_merge_pair(ir_node *nw, ir_node *old, dbg_action info);
+
+/**
+ * The default merge_sets_func implementation, does nothing
+ */
+void default_dbg_info_merge_sets(ir_node **new_nodes, int n_new_nodes,
+ ir_node **old_nodes, int n_old_nodes,
+ dbg_action info);
+
#endif /* _DBGINFO_H_ */