Almost every entity in the API (with the exception of gccjit::context and gcc_jit_result *) is a “contextual” object, a gccjit::object.
A JIT object:
- is associated with a gccjit::context.
- is automatically cleaned up for you when its context is released so you don’t need to manually track and cleanup all objects, just the contexts.
The C++ class hierarchy within the gccjit namespace looks like this:
+- object
+- location
+- type
+- struct
+- field
+- function
+- block
+- rvalue
+- lvalue
+- param
+- case_
The gccjit::object base class has the following operations:
Which context is the obj within?
Generate a human-readable description for the given object.
For example,
printf ("obj: %s\n", obj.get_debug_string ().c_str ());
might give this text on stdout:
obj: 4.0 * (float)i