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Re: SSA range class and removal of VR_ANTI_RANGEs




On 05/23/2017 03:26 PM, Martin Sebor wrote:
On 05/23/2017 04:48 AM, Aldy Hernandez wrote:

+  void Union (wide_int x, wide_int y);
+  bool Union (const irange &r);
+  bool Union (const irange &r1, const irange &r2);
+
+  // THIS = THIS ^ [X,Y].  Return TRUE if result is non-empty.
+  bool Intersect (wide_int x, wide_int y, bool readonly = false);
+  // THIS = THIS ^ R.  Return TRUE if result is non-empty.
+  // THIS = R1 ^ R2.  Return TRUE if result is non-empty.
+ bool Intersect (const irange &r1, const irange &r2, bool readonly = false);
+  // Return TRUE if THIS ^ R will be non-empty.
+  bool Intersect_p (const irange &r)
+    { return Intersect (r, /*readonly=*/true); }

I would suggest the following changes to Union, Intersect, and Not:

1) Define all three members without the readonly argument and
    returning irange& (i.e., *this).  The return value can be
    used wherever irange& is expected, and the is_empty() member
    function can be called on it to obtain the same result.  E.g.,
    Intersect A with B, storing the result in A:

    irange A, B;
    if (A.Intersect (B).is_empty ()) { ... }

2) Add non-members like so:

   irange range_union (const irange &lhs, const irange &rhs)
   {
     return irange (lhs).Union (rhs);
   }

   and find out if the union of A or B is empty without modifying
   either argument:

   irange A, B;
   if (range_union (A, B).is_empty ()) { ... }

Perhaps we could provide an implicit conversion from irange to bool such that we could write:

if (range_union (A, B)) { ... }

as well as being able to write:

if (!range_union (A, B).is_empty ()) { ... }

That is, have range_union() return an irange as suggested, but have a bool overload (or whatever the C++ nomenclature is) such that converting an irange to a bool is interpreted as ``nitems != 0''.

Is this acceptable C++ practice?

Thanks.
Aldy


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