/**
* Datastructure that holds central information about a program
*
- * Preliminary documentation ;-)
+ * Preliminary documentation ;-)
*
- * - main_irg The ir graph that is the entry point to the program.
+ * - main_irg: The ir graph that is the entry point to the program.
* (Anything not reachable from here may be optimized away.
* If we want to translate libraries or the like correctly
* we must replace this by a list.)
- * - irg List of all ir graphs in the program.
- * - type A list containing all types known to the translated program.
+ * - irg: List of all ir graphs in the program.
+ * - type: A list containing all types known to the translated program.
* Some types can have several entries in this list (as a result of
* using exchange_types()).
- * - glob_type The unique global type that is owner of all global entities.
+ * - glob_type: The unique global type that is owner of all global entities.
*
*/
typedef struct ir_prog ir_prog;
-/** A variable from where everything in the ir can be accessed. */
+/**
+ * A variable from where everything in the ir can be accessed.
+ * This variable contains the irp, the "immediate representation program".
+ * This variable should be considered constant. Moreover, one should use get_irp()
+ * to get access the the irp.
+ *
+ * @note
+ * Think of the irp as the "handle" of libFirm.
+ */
extern ir_prog *irp;
/**
/** Adds irg to the list of ir graphs in irp. */
void add_irp_irg(ir_graph *irg);
+
/** Removes irg from the list of irgs, deallocates it and
shrinks the list by one. */
void remove_irp_irg(ir_graph *irg);
+
+/** Returns the number of ir graphs in the irp. */
int get_irp_n_irgs(void);
+
+/** Returns the ir graph at position pos in the irp. */
ir_graph *get_irp_irg(int pos);
+
+/** Sets the ir graph at position pos. */
void set_irp_irg(int pos, ir_graph *irg);
/** Adds type to the list of types in irp. */
void add_irp_type(type *typ);
-/* Removes type from the list of types, deallocates it and
+
+/** Removes type from the list of types, deallocates it and
shrinks the list by one. */
void remove_irp_type(type *typ);
+
+/** Returns the number of all types in the irp. */
int get_irp_n_types(void);
+
+/** Returns the type at position pos in the irp. */
type *get_irp_type(int pos);
+
+/** Overwrites the type at position pos with another type. */
void set_irp_type(int pos, type *typ);
-/* --- Functions to access the fields of ir_prog --- */
+/** Returns the "global" type of the irp. */
type *get_glob_type(void);