/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2004, 2014 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Doug Schaefer (IBM) - Initial API and implementation
* Sergey Prigogin (Google)
* Markus Schorn (Wind River Systems)
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.cpp.ICPPTemplateTemplateParameter;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.cpp.ICPPTemplateTypeParameter;
/**
* Interface for all c- and c++ types.
*
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
*/
public interface IType extends Cloneable {
public static final IType[] EMPTY_TYPE_ARRAY = {};
public static final ASTTypeMatcher TYPE_MATCHER = new ASTTypeMatcher();
public Object clone();
/**
* Test whether this type is the same as the given one. A typedef is considered to be the same
* type as it's target type.
* See {@link ICPPTemplateTemplateParameter#isSameType(IType)} or
* {@link ICPPTemplateTypeParameter#isSameType(IType)} for the semantics of comparing template
* parameters denoting types.
*/
public boolean isSameType(IType type);
}