Introduce the 'makeArrayRef(...)' family of functions, which fills a similar role for ArrayRef<> as std::make_pair() fills for std::pair<>: they return the right instantiation of ArrayRef<T> based on the types of the parameters.

They mostly mirror the ArrayRef constructors, with two exceptions:
 * There's no function mirroring the default constructor because it wouldn't have any parameters to deduce the right ArrayRef<T> from.
 * There's an explicit SmallVector<T> overload in addition to the SmallVectorImpl<T> overload. Without it, the single-element overload would try to create an ArrayRef<Smallvector<T> > because it's a better match according to the overloading rules. (And both overloads are used in the current tree, so neither is redundant)


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@135389 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h b/include/llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h
index 6db866e8c7..8eb715546e 100644
--- a/include/llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h
+++ b/include/llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h
@@ -147,7 +147,53 @@ namespace llvm {
     
     /// @}
   };
-  
+
+  /// @name ArrayRef Convenience constructors
+  /// @{
+
+  /// Construct an ArrayRef from a single element.
+  template<typename T>
+  ArrayRef<T> makeArrayRef(const T &OneElt) {
+    return OneElt;
+  }
+
+  /// Construct an ArrayRef from a pointer and length.
+  template<typename T>
+  ArrayRef<T> makeArrayRef(const T *data, size_t length) {
+    return ArrayRef<T>(data, length);
+  }
+
+  /// Construct an ArrayRef from a range.
+  template<typename T>
+  ArrayRef<T> makeArrayRef(const T *begin, const T *end) {
+    return ArrayRef<T>(begin, end);
+  }
+
+  /// Construct an ArrayRef from a SmallVector.
+  template <typename T>
+  ArrayRef<T> makeArrayRef(const SmallVectorImpl<T> &Vec) {
+    return Vec;
+  }
+
+  /// Construct an ArrayRef from a SmallVector.
+  template <typename T, unsigned N>
+  ArrayRef<T> makeArrayRef(const SmallVector<T, N> &Vec) {
+    return Vec;
+  }
+
+  /// Construct an ArrayRef from a std::vector.
+  template<typename T>
+  ArrayRef<T> makeArrayRef(const std::vector<T> &Vec) {
+    return Vec;
+  }
+
+  /// Construct an ArrayRef from a C array.
+  template<typename T, size_t N>
+  ArrayRef<T> makeArrayRef(const T (&Arr)[N]) {
+    return Arr;
+  }
+
+  /// @}
   /// @name ArrayRef Comparison Operators
   /// @{