/* Soot - a J*va Optimization Framework
* Copyright (C) 2002 Ondrej Lhotak
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the
* Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
* Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/
package soot;
/** Abstract class for Soot classes that model subtypes of java.lang.Object
* (ie. object references and arrays)
* @author Ondrej Lhotak
*/
public abstract class RefLikeType extends Type
{
/**
* If I have a variable x of declared type t, what is a good
* declared type for the expression ((Object[]) x)[i]? The
* getArrayElementType() method in RefLikeType was introduced even
* later to answer this question for all classes implementing
* RefLikeType. If t is an array, then the answer is the same as
* getElementType(). But t could also be Object, Serializable, or
* Cloneable, which can all hold any array, so then the answer is
* Object.
*/
public abstract Type getArrayElementType();
}