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023package com.oracle.graal.nodes.spi;
024
025import jdk.internal.jvmci.meta.*;
026
027import com.oracle.graal.graph.*;
028import com.oracle.graal.nodes.*;
029import com.oracle.graal.nodes.memory.address.*;
030
031/**
032 * Provides a capability for replacing a higher node with one or more lower level nodes.
033 */
034public interface LoweringProvider {
035
036    void lower(Node n, LoweringTool tool);
037
038    /**
039     * Reconstructs the array index from an address node that was created as a lowering of an
040     * indexed access to an array.
041     *
042     * @param elementKind the {@link Kind} of the array elements
043     * @param address an {@link AddressNode} pointing to an element in an array
044     * @return a node that gives the index of the element
045     */
046    ValueNode reconstructArrayIndex(Kind elementKind, AddressNode address);
047}