dmd.mtype

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool MODimplicitConv(MOD modfrom, MOD modto);

Return !=0 if modfrom can be implicitly converted to modto

pure nothrow @nogc @safe MATCH MODmethodConv(MOD modfrom, MOD modto);

Return MATCH.exact or MATCH.constant if a method of type '() modfrom' can call a method of type '() modto'.

pure nothrow @nogc @safe MOD MODmerge(MOD mod1, MOD mod2);

Merge mod bits to form common mod.

nothrow void MODtoBuffer(OutBuffer* buf, MOD mod);

Store modifier name into buf.

nothrow char* MODtoChars(MOD mod);

Return modifier name.

pure nothrow @nogc @safe StorageClass ModToStc(uint mod);

Convert MODxxxx to STCxxx

Type stripDefaultArgs(Type t);

Strip all parameter's idenfiers and their default arguments for merging types. If some of parameter types or return type are function pointer, delegate, or the types which contains either, then strip also from them.

Expression semanticLength(Scope* sc, Type t, Expression exp);

This evaluates exp while setting length to be the number of elements in the tuple t.

abstract class Type: dmd.root.rootobject.RootObject;

final int covariant(Type t, StorageClass* pstc = null, bool fix17349 = true);

Covariant means that 'this' can substitute for 't', i.e. a pure function is a match for an impure type.

Parameters:

Type t	type 'this' is covariant with
StorageClass* pstc	if not null, store STCxxxx which would make it covariant
bool fix17349	enable fix https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17349

Returns:

0 types are distinct 1 this is covariant with t 2 arguments match as far as overloading goes, but types are not covariant 3 cannot determine covariance because of forward references *pstc STCxxxx which would make it covariant

final const(char)* toChars();

final char* toPrettyChars(bool QualifyTypes = false);

For pretty-printing a type.

final Type merge2();

This version does a merge even if the deco is already computed. Necessary for types that have a deco, but are not merged.

final nothrow void modToBuffer(OutBuffer* buf);

Store this type's modifier name into buf.

final nothrow char* modToChars();

Return this type's modifier name.

final int modifiersApply(void* param, int function(void*, const(char)*) fp);

For each active modifier (MODFlags.const_, MODFlags.immutable_, etc) call fp with a void* for the work param and a string representation of the attribute.

bool isAssignable();

When T is mutable,

Given T a, b; Can we bitwise assign: a = b; ?

bool isBoolean();

Returns true if T can be converted to boolean value.

void checkDeprecated(ref const Loc loc, Scope* sc);

Check type to see if it is based on a deprecated symbol.

final nothrow Type nullAttributes();

Return a copy of this type with all attributes null-initialized. Useful for creating a type with different modifiers.

final Type constOf();

Convert to 'const'.

final Type immutableOf();

Convert to 'immutable'.

final Type mutableOf();

Make type mutable.

final Type unSharedOf();

Make type unshared. 0 => 0 const => const immutable => immutable shared => 0 shared const => const wild => wild wild const => wild const shared wild => wild shared wild const => wild const

final Type wildOf();

Convert to 'wild'.

final void fixTo(Type t);

For our new type 'this', which is type-constructed from t, fill in the cto, ito, sto, scto, wto shortcuts.

final void check();

Look for bugs in constructing types.

final Type addSTC(StorageClass stc);

Apply STCxxxx bits to existing type. Use *before* semantic analysis is run.

final Type castMod(MOD mod);

Apply MODxxxx bits to existing type.

final Type addMod(MOD mod);

Add MODxxxx bits to existing type. We're adding, not replacing, so adding const to a shared type => "shared const"

Type addStorageClass(StorageClass stc);

Add storage class modifiers to type.

Type toBasetype();

If this is a shell around another type, get that other type.

MATCH implicitConvTo(Type to);

Determine if 'this' can be implicitly converted to type 'to'.

Returns:

MATCH.nomatch, MATCH.convert, MATCH.constant, MATCH.exact

MATCH constConv(Type to);

Determine if converting 'this' to 'to' is an identity operation, a conversion to const operation, or the types aren't the same.

Returns:

MATCH.exact 'this' == 'to' MATCH.constant 'to' is const MATCH.nomatch conversion to mutable or invariant

ubyte deduceWild(Type t, bool isRef);

Return MOD bits matching this type to wild parameter type (tprm).

Type toHeadMutable();

Return type with the top level of it being mutable.

Expression getProperty(ref const Loc loc, Identifier ident, int flag);

Calculate built-in properties which just the type is necessary.

If flag & 1, don't report "not a property" error and just return NULL.

enum DotExpFlag: int;

dotExp() bit flags

Expression dotExp(Scope* sc, Expression e, Identifier ident, int flag);

Access the members of the object e. This type is same as e.type.

Parameters:

Scope* sc	instantiating scope
Expression e	expression to convert
Identifier ident	identifier being used
int flag	DotExpFlag bit flags

Returns:

resulting expression with e.ident resolved

structalign_t alignment();

Return alignment to use for this type.

final Expression noMember(Scope* sc, Expression e, Identifier ident, int flag);

Figures out what to do with an undefined member reference for classes and structs.

If flag & 1, don't report "not a property" error and just return NULL.

Expression defaultInitLiteral(ref const Loc loc);

Use when we prefer the default initializer to be a literal, rather than a global immutable variable.

void resolve(ref const Loc loc, Scope* sc, Expression* pe, Type* pt, Dsymbol* ps, bool intypeid = false);

Resolve 'this' type to either type, symbol, or expression. If errors happened, resolved to Type.terror.

final void resolveExp(Expression e, Type* pt, Expression* pe, Dsymbol* ps);

Normalize e as the result of Type.resolve() process.

const int hasWild();

Return !=0 if the type or any of its subtypes is wild.

bool hasPointers();

Return !=0 if type has pointers that need to be scanned by the GC during a collection cycle.

bool hasVoidInitPointers();

Detect if type has pointer fields that are initialized to void. Local stack variables with such void fields can remain uninitialized, leading to pointer bugs.

Returns:

true if so

Type nextOf();

If this is a type of something, return that something.

final Type baseElemOf();

If this is a type of static array, return its base element type.

final uinteger_t sizemask();

Return the mask that an integral type will fit into.

bool needsDestruction();

true if when type goes out of scope, it needs a destructor applied. Only applies to value types, not ref types.

bool needsNested();

final bool checkComplexTransition(ref const Loc loc, Scope* sc);

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14488 Check if the inner most base type is complex or imaginary. Should only give alerts when set to emit transitional messages.

Parameters:

Loc loc	The source location.
Scope* sc	scope of the type

class TypeError: dmd.mtype.Type;

abstract class TypeNext: dmd.mtype.Type;

final Type nextOf();

For TypeFunction, nextOf() can return NULL if the function return type is meant to be inferred, and semantic() hasn't yet ben run on the function. After semantic(), it must no longer be NULL.

class TypeBasic: dmd.mtype.Type;

class TypeVector: dmd.mtype.Type;

The basetype must be one of: byte[16],ubyte[16],short[8],ushort[8],int[4],uint[4],long[2],ulong[2],float[4],double[2] For AVX: byte[32],ubyte[32],short[16],ushort[16],int[8],uint[8],long[4],ulong[4],float[8],double[4]

class TypeArray: dmd.mtype.TypeNext;

class TypeSArray: dmd.mtype.TypeArray;

Static array, one with a fixed dimension

bool needsNested();

class TypeDArray: dmd.mtype.TypeArray;

Dynamic array, no dimension

class TypeAArray: dmd.mtype.TypeArray;

class TypePointer: dmd.mtype.TypeNext;

class TypeReference: dmd.mtype.TypeNext;

class TypeFunction: dmd.mtype.TypeNext;

void purityLevel();

Set 'purity' field of 'this'. Do this lazily, as the parameter types might be forward referenced.

bool hasLazyParameters();

Return true if there are lazy parameters.

bool parameterEscapes(Parameter p);

Examine function signature for parameter p and see if the value of p can 'escape' the scope of the function. This is useful to minimize the needed annotations for the parameters.

Parameters:

Parameter p

parameter to this function

Returns:

true if escapes via assignment to global or through a parameter

final StorageClass parameterStorageClass(Parameter p);

Take the specified storage class for p, and use the function signature to infer whether STC.scope_ and STC.return_ should be OR'd in. (This will not affect the name mangling.)

Parameters:

Parameter p

one of the parameters to 'this'

Returns:

storage class with STC.scope_ or STC.return_ OR'd in

int attributesApply(void* param, int function(void*, const(char)*) fp, TRUSTformat trustFormat = TRUSTformatDefault);

For each active attribute (ref/const/nogc/etc) call fp with a void* for the work param and a string representation of the attribute.

MATCH callMatch(Type tthis, Expressions* args, int flag = 0, const(char)** pMessage = null);

'args' are being matched to function 'this' Determine match level.

Input flag 1 performing a partial ordering match pMessage address to store error message, or null

Returns:

MATCHxxxx

class TypeDelegate: dmd.mtype.TypeNext;

abstract class TypeQualified: dmd.mtype.Type;

final void resolveTupleIndex(ref const Loc loc, Scope* sc, Dsymbol s, Expression* pe, Type* pt, Dsymbol* ps, RootObject oindex);

Resolve a tuple index.

final void resolveHelper(ref const Loc loc, Scope* sc, Dsymbol s, Dsymbol scopesym, Expression* pe, Type* pt, Dsymbol* ps, bool intypeid = false);

Takes an array of Identifiers and figures out if it represents a Type or an Expression.

Output if expression, *pe is set if type, *pt is set

class TypeIdentifier: dmd.mtype.TypeQualified;

void resolve(ref const Loc loc, Scope* sc, Expression* pe, Type* pt, Dsymbol* ps, bool intypeid = false);

Takes an array of Identifiers and figures out if it represents a Type or an Expression.

Output if expression, *pe is set if type, *pt is set

Dsymbol toDsymbol(Scope* sc);

See if type resolves to a symbol, if so, return that symbol.

class TypeInstance: dmd.mtype.TypeQualified;

Similar to TypeIdentifier, but with a TemplateInstance as the root

class TypeTypeof: dmd.mtype.TypeQualified;

class TypeReturn: dmd.mtype.TypeQualified;

class TypeStruct: dmd.mtype.Type;

Expression defaultInitLiteral(ref const Loc loc);

Use when we prefer the default initializer to be a literal, rather than a global immutable variable.

class TypeEnum: dmd.mtype.Type;

class TypeClass: dmd.mtype.Type;

class TypeTuple: dmd.mtype.Type;

this(Expressions* exps);

Form TypeTuple from the types of the expressions. Assume exps[] is already tuple expanded.

this();

Type tuple with 0, 1 or 2 types in it.

class TypeSlice: dmd.mtype.TypeNext;

This is so we can slice a TypeTuple

class TypeNull: dmd.mtype.Type;

class Parameter: dmd.root.rootobject.RootObject;

Type isLazyArray();

Determine if parameter is a lazy array of delegates. If so, return the return type of those delegates. If not, return NULL.

Returns T if the type is one of the following forms: T delegate()[] T delegate()[dim]

static int isTPL(Parameters* parameters);

Determine if parameter list is really a template parameter list (i.e. it has auto or alias parameters)

static size_t dim(Parameters* parameters);

Determine number of arguments, folding in tuples.

static Parameter getNth(Parameters* parameters, size_t nth, size_t* pn = null);

Get nth Parameter, folding in tuples.

Returns:

Parameter* nth Parameter NULL not found, *pn gets incremented by the number of Parameters

static int _foreach(Parameters* parameters, scope ForeachDg dg, size_t* pn = null);

Expands tuples in args in depth first order. Calls dg(void *ctx, size_t argidx, Parameter *arg) for each Parameter. If dg returns !=0, stops and returns that value else returns 0. Use this function to avoid the O(N + N^2/2) complexity of calculating dim and calling N times getNth.

final const pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isCovariant(bool returnByRef, const Parameter p);

Compute covariance of parameters this and p as determined by the storage classes of both.

Parameters:

bool returnByRef	true if the function returns by ref
Parameter p	Parameter to compare with

Returns:

true = this can be used in place of p false = nope

const(char*)[2] toAutoQualChars(Type t1, Type t2);

For printing two types with qualification when necessary.

Parameters:

Type t1	The first type to receive the type name for
Type t2	The second type to receive the type name for

Returns:

The fully-qualified names of both types if the two type names are not the same, or the unqualified names of both types if the two type names are the same.