GetPointer

A pointer to a target.

Declaration

Syntax

GetPointer(expr arg, ttype type, expr? value)

Arguments

Argument

Description

arg

the target.

type

the type of the expression.

value

the compile time value of the expression, when the frontend could fold it; nil otherwise.

Return values

The value of the expression.

Description

This is what the right hand side of p => t becomes: it produces a pointer value referring to the storage of t, which Associate then stores in p.

Unlike CLoc the result keeps the type and the shape of the target.

Examples

(GetPointer
  :arg (Var
    :v (SymbolRef 1 "target")
  )
  :type (Pointer
    :type (Integer
      :kind 4
    )
  )
  :value nil
)

It comes from this complete ASR text document:

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        :name "main"
        :dependencies []
        :body [
          (Assignment
            :target (Var
              :v (SymbolRef 1 "c")
            )
            :value (CLoc
              :arg (Var
                :v (SymbolRef 1 "target")
              )
              :type (CPtr)
              :value nil
            )
            :overloaded nil
            :realloc_lhs false
            :move_allocation false
          )
          (Assignment
            :target (Var
              :v (SymbolRef 1 "c")
            )
            :value (PointerToCPtr
              :arg (Var
                :v (SymbolRef 1 "p")
              )
              :type (CPtr)
              :value nil
            )
            :overloaded nil
            :realloc_lhs false
            :move_allocation false
          )
          (Associate
            :target (Var
              :v (SymbolRef 1 "p")
            )
            :value (GetPointer
              :arg (Var
                :v (SymbolRef 1 "target")
              )
              :type (Pointer
                :type (Integer
                  :kind 4
                )
              )
              :value nil
            )
          )
          (Assignment
            :target (Var
              :v (SymbolRef 1 "b")
            )
            :value (CPtrCompare
              :left (Var
                :v (SymbolRef 1 "c")
              )
              :op :Eq
              :right (Var
                :v (SymbolRef 1 "c")
              )
              :type (Logical
                :kind 4
              )
              :value nil
            )
            :overloaded nil
            :realloc_lhs false
            :move_allocation false
          )
          (Assignment
            :target (Var
              :v (SymbolRef 1 "b")
            )
            :value (PointerAssociated
              :ptr (Var
                :v (SymbolRef 1 "p")
              )
              :tgt (Var
                :v (SymbolRef 1 "target")
              )
              :type (Logical
                :kind 4
              )
              :value nil
            )
            :overloaded nil
            :realloc_lhs false
            :move_allocation false
          )
          (Assignment
            :target (Var
              :v (SymbolRef 1 "n")
            )
            :value (SizeOfType
              :arg (Integer
                :kind 4
              )
              :type (Integer
                :kind 8
              )
              :value nil
            )
            :overloaded nil
            :realloc_lhs false
            :move_allocation false
          )
        ]
      )
    }
  )
  :items []
)

See Also

Associate, CLoc, PointerAssociated, Pointer