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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2005-04-25 15:47:57 +0000
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@@ -970,6 +970,15 @@ assembly parser, and linker also have to be aware of the inner workings of this
system.
</p>
+<p>
+For our purposes below, we need three concepts. First, an "Opaque Type" is
+exactly as defined in the <a href="LangRef.html#t_opaque">language
+reference</a>. Second an "Abstract Type" is any type which includes an
+opaque type as part of its type graph (for example "<tt>{ opaque, int }</tt>").
+Third, a concrete type is a type that is not an abstract type (e.g. "<tt>[ int,
+float }</tt>").
+</p>
+
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@@ -1093,8 +1102,8 @@ changes.</p>
To support this, a class can derive from the AbstractTypeUser class. This class
allows it to get callbacks when certain types are resolved. To register to get
callbacks for a particular type, the DerivedType::{add/remove}AbstractTypeUser
-methods can be called on a type. Note that these methods only work for {\em
-abstract} types. Concrete types (those that do not include an opaque objects
+methods can be called on a type. Note that these methods only work for <i>
+abstract</i> types. Concrete types (those that do not include an opaque objects
somewhere) can never be refined.
</p>
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