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package com.oracle.graal.api.meta;

/**
 * Marker interface for location identities. Apart from the special values {@link #ANY_LOCATION} and
 * {@link #FINAL_LOCATION}, a different location identity of two memory accesses guarantees that the
 * two accesses do not interfere.
 */
public interface LocationIdentity {

    /**
     * Denotes any location. A write to such a location kills all values in a memory map during an
     * analysis of memory accesses. A read from this location cannot be moved or coalesced with
     * other reads because its interaction with other reads is not known.
     */
    LocationIdentity ANY_LOCATION = NamedLocationIdentity.create("ANY_LOCATION", false);

    /**
     * Denotes the location of a value that is guaranteed to be unchanging.
     */
    LocationIdentity FINAL_LOCATION = NamedLocationIdentity.create("FINAL_LOCATION", true);

    /**
     * Denotes the location of the length field of a Java array.
     */
    LocationIdentity ARRAY_LENGTH_LOCATION = NamedLocationIdentity.create("[].length", true);

    /**
     * Denotes a location is unchanging in all cases. Not that this is different than the Java
     * notion of final which only requires definite assignment.
     */
    default boolean isImmutable() {
        return false;
    }
}