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package com.oracle.graal.nodes.extended;

import com.oracle.graal.api.meta.*;
import com.oracle.graal.graph.Node.ValueNumberable;
import com.oracle.graal.nodes.calc.*;
import com.oracle.graal.nodes.spi.*;
import com.oracle.graal.nodes.type.*;

/**
 * A location for a memory access in terms of the kind of value accessed and how to access it. All
 * locations have the form [base + location], where base is a node and location is defined by
 * subclasses of the {@link LocationNode}.
 */
public abstract class LocationNode extends FloatingNode implements LIRLowerable, ValueNumberable {

    /**
     * Creates a new unique location identity for read and write operations.
     * 
     * @param name the name of the new location identity, for debugging purposes
     * @return the new location identity
     */
    public static Object createLocation(final String name) {
        return new Object() {

            @Override
            public String toString() {
                return name;
            }
        };
    }

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

    /**
     * Denotes the location of a value that is guaranteed to be final.
     */
    public static final Object FINAL_LOCATION = createLocation("FINAL_LOCATION");

    /**
     * Marker interface for locations in snippets.
     */
    public interface Location {
    }

    public static Object getArrayLocation(Kind elementKind) {
        return elementKind;
    }

    protected LocationNode(Stamp stamp) {
        super(stamp);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the kind of the accessed memory value.
     */
    public abstract Kind getValueKind();

    /**
     * Returns the identity of the accessed memory location. 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 abstract Object locationIdentity();

    @Override
    public final void generate(LIRGeneratorTool generator) {
        // nothing to do...
    }

    public abstract Value generateAddress(LIRGeneratorTool gen, Value base);
}