public interface IDebugType<out TNative, out TDebug> : ITypeRef, 
	IExtensiblePropertyContainer
where TNative : ITypeRef
where TDebug : DIType

Type Parameters

TNative

TDebug

Primitive types and function signature types are all interned in LLVM, thus there won't be a strict one to one relationship between an LLVM type and corresponding language specific debug type. (e.g. unsigned char, char, byte and signed byte might all be 8 bit integer values as far as LLVM is concerned. Also, when using the pointer+alloca+memcpy pattern to pass by value the actual source debug info type is different than the LLVM function signature. This class is used to construct native type and debug info pairing to allow applications to maintain a link from their AST or IR types into the LLVM native type and debug information.

Note
It is important to note that the relationship between the DIType to it's NativeType properties is strictly one way. That is, there is no way to take an arbitrary ITypeRef and re-associate it with the DIType or an implementation of this interface as there may be many such mappings to choose from.

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