Val

A homogeneous collection of data members.

A Boolean constant.

A 8-bit signed two’s complement integer.

A collection of bytes.

Unlike arrays, byte strings are implicitly null-terminated. Hence, they correspond to C-string literals. For example, ByteString(Array(97)) will be compiled to c"a\0".

16-bit unsigned Unicode character

A reference to java.lang.Class[_] of given symbol name.

Instances are emitted as global variables during code feneration. They are used to deduplicate Class instances. There should be only 1 instance per type.

Note that, althrough they are currently emitted as global variables, instances of this type could be constants. However, when we added multithreading and object monitors, we needed to edit one of its fields (specifically, lockWord), which contains an ObjectMonitor or a bit set of lock word.

A constant.

Note that this class does not behave like a literal constant, which are represented by ByteString, Zero, Int, etc. Instead, it represents a pointer to some constant value.

A 64-bit IEEE 754 double-precision float.

The constant Boolean 'false'.

A 32-bit IEEE 754 single-precision float.

A reference to a global variable, constant, or method.

A 32-bit signed two’s complement integer.

A local SSA variable.

A 64-bit signed two’s complement integer.

The constant 'null' value.

A 16-bit signed two’s complement integer.

A numerical value suitable to represent the size of a container.

A character string.

Values of this type correspond to instances of java.lang.String and are compiled as global arrays of UTF-16 characters. Use ByteString to represent C-string literals.

A heterogeneous collection of data members.

The constant Boolean 'true'.

The unit value.

A virtual value.

Virtual values only serve as placeholders during optimization. They are not serializable and are never emitted by the compiler plugin.

The "zero" value of the given NIR type.

The names of the product elements

The name of the type