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Documentation and more refactoring of Simple Language
author Christian Wimmer <christian.wimmer@oracle.com>
date Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:45:43 -0800
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package com.oracle.truffle.sl.nodes;

import java.math.*;

import com.oracle.truffle.api.dsl.*;
import com.oracle.truffle.sl.*;
import com.oracle.truffle.sl.runtime.*;

/**
 * The type system of SL, as explained in {@link SLMain}. Based on the annotation {@link TypeSystem}
 * , the Truffle DSL generates the subclass {@link SLTypesGen} with type test and type conversion
 * methods for all types. In this class, we only cover types where the automatically generated ones
 * would not be sufficient.
 */
@TypeSystem({long.class, BigInteger.class, boolean.class, String.class, SLFunction.class, SLNull.class})
public abstract class SLTypes {

    /**
     * Example of a manually specified type check that replaces the automatically generated type
     * check that the Truffle DSL would generate. For {@link SLNull}, we do not need an
     * {@code instanceof} check, because we know that there is only a {@link SLNull#SINGLETON
     * singleton} instance.
     */
    @TypeCheck
    public boolean isSLNull(Object value) {
        return value == SLNull.SINGLETON;
    }

    /**
     * Example of a manually specified type cast that replaces the automatically generated type cast
     * that the Truffle DSL would generate. For {@link SLNull}, we do not need an actual cast,
     * because we know that there is only a {@link SLNull#SINGLETON singleton} instance.
     */
    @TypeCast
    public SLNull asSLNull(Object value) {
        assert isSLNull(value);
        return SLNull.SINGLETON;
    }

    /**
     * Informs the Truffle DSL that a primitive {@code long} value can used in all specializations
     * where a {@link BigInteger} is expected. This models the semantic of SL: It only has an
     * arbitrary precision Number type (implemented as {@link BigInteger}, and {@code long} is only
     * used as a performance optimization to avoid the costly {@link BigInteger} arithmetic for
     * values that fit into a 64-bit primitive value.
     */
    @ImplicitCast
    public BigInteger castBigInteger(long value) {
        return BigInteger.valueOf(value);
    }
}