You cannot select more than 25 topics Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.

115 lines
5.7 KiB
HTML

<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Accessors - GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html">
<meta name="description" content="GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals">
<meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13">
<link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top">
<link rel="up" href="RTL.html#RTL" title="RTL">
<link rel="prev" href="RTL-Classes.html#RTL-Classes" title="RTL Classes">
<link rel="next" href="Special-Accessors.html#Special-Accessors" title="Special Accessors">
<link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage">
<!--
Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the
Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover
Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b)
(see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
``GNU Free Documentation License''.
(a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is:
A GNU Manual
(b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is:
You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU
software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise
funds for GNU development.-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<style type="text/css"><!--
pre.display { font-family:inherit }
pre.format { font-family:inherit }
pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller }
pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller }
pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller }
pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller }
span.sc { font-variant:small-caps }
span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; }
span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; }
--></style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="node">
<a name="Accessors"></a>
<p>
Next:&nbsp;<a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Special-Accessors.html#Special-Accessors">Special Accessors</a>,
Previous:&nbsp;<a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="RTL-Classes.html#RTL-Classes">RTL Classes</a>,
Up:&nbsp;<a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="RTL.html#RTL">RTL</a>
<hr>
</div>
<h3 class="section">13.3 Access to Operands</h3>
<p><a name="index-accessors-2557"></a><a name="index-access-to-operands-2558"></a><a name="index-operand-access-2559"></a>
<a name="index-XEXP-2560"></a><a name="index-XINT-2561"></a><a name="index-XWINT-2562"></a><a name="index-XSTR-2563"></a>Operands of expressions are accessed using the macros <code>XEXP</code>,
<code>XINT</code>, <code>XWINT</code> and <code>XSTR</code>. Each of these macros takes
two arguments: an expression-pointer (RTX) and an operand number
(counting from zero). Thus,
<pre class="smallexample"> XEXP (<var>x</var>, 2)
</pre>
<p class="noindent">accesses operand 2 of expression <var>x</var>, as an expression.
<pre class="smallexample"> XINT (<var>x</var>, 2)
</pre>
<p class="noindent">accesses the same operand as an integer. <code>XSTR</code>, used in the same
fashion, would access it as a string.
<p>Any operand can be accessed as an integer, as an expression or as a string.
You must choose the correct method of access for the kind of value actually
stored in the operand. You would do this based on the expression code of
the containing expression. That is also how you would know how many
operands there are.
<p>For example, if <var>x</var> is a <code>subreg</code> expression, you know that it has
two operands which can be correctly accessed as <code>XEXP (</code><var>x</var><code>, 0)</code>
and <code>XINT (</code><var>x</var><code>, 1)</code>. If you did <code>XINT (</code><var>x</var><code>, 0)</code>, you
would get the address of the expression operand but cast as an integer;
that might occasionally be useful, but it would be cleaner to write
<code>(int) XEXP (</code><var>x</var><code>, 0)</code>. <code>XEXP (</code><var>x</var><code>, 1)</code> would also
compile without error, and would return the second, integer operand cast as
an expression pointer, which would probably result in a crash when
accessed. Nothing stops you from writing <code>XEXP (</code><var>x</var><code>, 28)</code> either,
but this will access memory past the end of the expression with
unpredictable results.
<p>Access to operands which are vectors is more complicated. You can use the
macro <code>XVEC</code> to get the vector-pointer itself, or the macros
<code>XVECEXP</code> and <code>XVECLEN</code> to access the elements and length of a
vector.
<a name="index-XVEC-2564"></a>
<dl><dt><code>XVEC (</code><var>exp</var><code>, </code><var>idx</var><code>)</code><dd>Access the vector-pointer which is operand number <var>idx</var> in <var>exp</var>.
<p><a name="index-XVECLEN-2565"></a><br><dt><code>XVECLEN (</code><var>exp</var><code>, </code><var>idx</var><code>)</code><dd>Access the length (number of elements) in the vector which is
in operand number <var>idx</var> in <var>exp</var>. This value is an <code>int</code>.
<p><a name="index-XVECEXP-2566"></a><br><dt><code>XVECEXP (</code><var>exp</var><code>, </code><var>idx</var><code>, </code><var>eltnum</var><code>)</code><dd>Access element number <var>eltnum</var> in the vector which is
in operand number <var>idx</var> in <var>exp</var>. This value is an RTX.
<p>It is up to you to make sure that <var>eltnum</var> is not negative
and is less than <code>XVECLEN (</code><var>exp</var><code>, </code><var>idx</var><code>)</code>.
</dl>
<p>All the macros defined in this section expand into lvalues and therefore
can be used to assign the operands, lengths and vector elements as well as
to access them.
</body></html>