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--  This package contains constants describing target properties

with Types;    use Types;
with Get_Targ; use Get_Targ;

package Ttypes is

   ------------------------------
   -- Host/Target Dependencies --
   ------------------------------

   --  It is vital to maintain a clear distinction between properties of
   --  types on the host and types on the target, since in the general
   --  case of a cross-compiler these will be different.

   --  This package and its companion Ttypef provide definitions of values
   --  that describe the properties of the target types. All instances of
   --  target dependencies, including the definitions of such packages as
   --  Standard and System depend directly or indirectly on the definitions
   --  in the Ttypes and Ttypef packages.

   --  In the source of the compiler, references to attributes such as
   --  Integer'Size will give information regarding the host types (i.e.
   --  the types within the compiler itself). Such references are therefore
   --  almost always suspicious (it is hard for example to see that the
   --  code in the compiler should even be using type Integer very much,
   --  and certainly this code should not depend on the size of Integer).

   --  On the other hand, it is perfectly reasonable for the compiler to
   --  require access to the size of type Integer for the target machine,
   --  e.g. in constructing the internal representation of package Standard.
   --  For this purpose, instead of referencing the attribute Integer'Size,
   --  a reference to Ttypes.Standard_Integer_Size will provide the needed
   --  value for the target type.

   --  Two approaches are used for handling target dependent values in the
   --  standard library packages. Package Standard is handled specially,
   --  being constructed internally (by package Stand). Target dependent
   --  values needed in Stand are obtained by direct reference to Ttypes
   --  and Ttypef.

   --  For package System, the required constant values are obtained by
   --  referencing appropriate attributes. Ada 95 already defines most of
   --  the required attributes, and GNAT specific attributes have been
   --  defined to cover the remaining cases (such as Storage_Unit). The
   --  evaluation of these attributes obtains the required target dependent
   --  values from Ttypes and Ttypef. The additional attributes that have
   --  been added to GNAT (Address_Size, Storage_Unit, Word_Size, Max_Priority,
   --  and Max_Interrupt_Priority) are for almost all purposes redundant with
   --  respect to the corresponding references to System constants. For example
   --  in a program, System.Address_Size and Standard'Address_Size yield the
   --  same value. The critical use of the attribute is in writing the System
   --  declaration of Address_Size which of course cannot refer to itself. By
   --  this means we achieve complete target independence in the source code
   --  of package System, i.e. there is only one copy of the source of System
   --  for all targets.

   --  Note that during compilation there are two versions of package System
   --  around. The version that is directly WITH'ed by compiler packages
   --  contains host-dependent definitions, which is what is needed in that
   --  case (for example, System.Storage_Unit referenced in the source of the
   --  compiler refers to the storage unit of the host, not the target. This
   --  means that, like attribute references, any references to constants in
   --  package System in the compiler code are suspicious, since it is strange
   --  for the compiler to have such host dependencies. If the compiler needs
   --  to access the target dependent values of such quantities as Storage_Unit
   --  then it should reference the constants in this package (Ttypes), rather
   --  than referencing System.Storage_Unit, or Standard'Storage_Unit, both of
   --  which would yield the host value.

   ---------------------------------------------------
   -- Target-Dependent Values for Types in Standard --
   ---------------------------------------------------

   --  Note: GNAT always supplies all the following integer and float types,
   --  but depending on the machine, some of the types may be identical. For
   --  example, on some machines, Short_Float may be the same as Float, and
   --  Long_Long_Float may be the same as Long_Float.

   Standard_Short_Short_Integer_Size   : constant Pos := Get_Char_Size;
   Standard_Short_Short_Integer_Width  : constant Pos :=
                           Width_From_Size (Standard_Short_Short_Integer_Size);

   Standard_Short_Integer_Size         : constant Pos := Get_Short_Size;
   Standard_Short_Integer_Width        : constant Pos :=
                           Width_From_Size (Standard_Short_Integer_Size);

   Standard_Integer_Size               : constant Pos := Get_Int_Size;
   Standard_Integer_Width              : constant Pos :=
                           Width_From_Size (Standard_Integer_Size);

   Standard_Long_Integer_Size          : constant Pos := Get_Long_Size;
   Standard_Long_Integer_Width         : constant Pos :=
                           Width_From_Size (Standard_Long_Integer_Size);

   Standard_Long_Long_Integer_Size     : constant Pos := Get_Long_Long_Size;
   Standard_Long_Long_Integer_Width    : constant Pos :=
                           Width_From_Size (Standard_Long_Long_Integer_Size);

   Standard_Short_Float_Size           : constant Pos := Get_Float_Size;
   Standard_Short_Float_Digits         : constant Pos :=
                           Digits_From_Size (Standard_Short_Float_Size);

   Standard_Float_Size                 : constant Pos := Get_Float_Size;
   Standard_Float_Digits               : constant Pos :=
                           Digits_From_Size (Standard_Float_Size);

   Standard_Long_Float_Size            : constant Pos := Get_Double_Size;
   Standard_Long_Float_Digits          : constant Pos :=
                           Digits_From_Size (Standard_Long_Float_Size);

   Standard_Long_Long_Float_Size       : constant Pos := Get_Long_Double_Size;
   Standard_Long_Long_Float_Digits     : constant Pos :=
                           Digits_From_Size (Standard_Long_Long_Float_Size);

   Standard_Character_Size             : constant Pos := Get_Char_Size;

   Standard_Wide_Character_Size        : constant Pos := 16;
   --  The Standard.Wide_Character type is special in the sense that
   --  it is not defined in terms of its corresponding C type (wchar_t).
   --  Unfortunately this makes the representation of Wide_Character
   --  incompatible with the C wchar_t type.
   --  ??? This is required by the RM or backward compatibility

   --  Note: there is no specific control over the representation of
   --  enumeration types. The convention used is that if an enumeration
   --  type has fewer than 2**(Character'Size) elements, then the size
   --  used is Character'Size, otherwise Integer'Size is used.

   --  Similarly, the size of fixed-point types depends on the size of the
   --  corresponding integer type, which is the smallest predefined integer
   --  type capable of representing the required range of values.

   -------------------------------------------------
   -- Target-Dependent Values for Types in System --
   -------------------------------------------------

   System_Address_Size : constant Pos := Get_Pointer_Size;
   --  System.Address'Size (also size of all thin pointers)

   System_Max_Binary_Modulus_Power    : constant Pos :=
                                          Standard_Long_Long_Integer_Size;

   System_Max_Nonbinary_Modulus_Power : constant Pos :=
                                          Standard_Integer_Size - 1;

   System_Storage_Unit : constant Pos := Get_Bits_Per_Unit;
   System_Word_Size    : constant Pos := Get_Bits_Per_Word;

   System_Tick_Nanoseconds : constant Pos := 1_000_000_000;
   --  Value of System.Tick in nanoseconds. At the moment, this is a fixed
   --  constant (with value of 1.0 seconds), but later we should add this
   --  value to the GCC configuration file so that its value can be made
   --  configuration dependent.

   -----------------------------------------------------
   -- Target-Dependent Values for Types in Interfaces --
   -----------------------------------------------------

   Interfaces_Wchar_T_Size : constant Pos := Get_Wchar_T_Size;

   ----------------------------------------
   -- Other Target-Dependent Definitions --
   ----------------------------------------

   Maximum_Alignment : constant Pos := Get_Maximum_Alignment;
   --  The maximum alignment, in storage units, that an object or
   --  type may require on the target machine.

   Bytes_Big_Endian : Boolean := Get_Bytes_BE /= 0;
   --  Important note: for Ada purposes, the important setting is the bytes
   --  endianness (Bytes_Big_Endian), not the bits value (Bits_Big_Endian).
   --  This is because Ada bit addressing must be compatible with the byte
   --  ordering (otherwise we would end up with non-contiguous fields). It
   --  is rare for the two to be different, but if they are, Bits_Big_Endian
   --  is relevant only for the generation of instructions with bit numbers,
   --  and thus relevant only to the back end. Note that this is a variable
   --  rather than a constant, since it can be modified (flipped) by -gnatd8.

   Target_Strict_Alignment : Boolean := Get_Strict_Alignment /= 0;
   --  True if instructions will fail if data is misaligned

end Ttypes;