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package com.oracle.graal.api.code;

import com.oracle.graal.api.meta.*;

/**
 * The runtime specific details of a {@linkplain ForeignCallDescriptor foreign} call.
 */
public interface ForeignCallLinkage extends InvokeTarget {

    /**
     * Gets the details of where parameters are passed and value(s) are returned from the caller's
     * perspective.
     */
    CallingConvention getOutgoingCallingConvention();

    /**
     * Gets the details of where parameters are passed and value(s) are returned from the callee's
     * perspective.
     */
    CallingConvention getIncomingCallingConvention();

    /**
     * Returns the maximum absolute offset of PC relative call to this stub from any position in the
     * code cache or -1 when not applicable. Intended for determining the required size of
     * address/offset fields.
     */
    long getMaxCallTargetOffset();

    ForeignCallDescriptor getDescriptor();

    /**
     * Gets the values used/killed by this foreign call.
     */
    Value[] getTemporaries();

    /**
     * Determines if the foreign call target destroys all registers.
     *
     * @return {@code true} if the register allocator must save all live registers around a call to
     *         this target
     */
    boolean destroysRegisters();

    /**
     * Determines if this is call to a function that does not deoptimize, and therefore also does
     * not lock, GC or throw exceptions. That is, the thread's execution state during the call is
     * never inspected by another thread.
     */
    boolean canDeoptimize();
}