Property Value

Type: Context

While most LLVM types contain the ability to retrieve their owning Context it is not always possible. For example, in LLVM, an empty AttributeSet doesn't actually have a Context so adding attributes to an empty AttributeSet requires a Context but adding attributes to a non-empty set does not. Thus, without some other means of getting a default Context multiple overloads for the Add operation would need to exist. Furthermore, calling code would need to manage dealing with deciding which variation of the overloaded methods to call at runtime. All of that and other similar cases are eliminated by having a thread static property to access whenever a Context instance is required but otherwise not conveniently available.