/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2005, 2009 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:
* Andrew Niefer (IBM) - Initial API and implementation
* Markus Schorn (Wind River Systems)
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.cpp;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.IBinding;
import org.eclipse.cdt.core.parser.util.ObjectMap;
/**
* For an instantiation of a class template, the members of that instantiation will be
* specializations of the members of the original class template.
* For an instantiation of a function template, the parameters will be specializations
* of the parameters of the original function template.
* Specializations can also be explicitly defined.
*
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
*/
public interface ICPPSpecialization extends ICPPBinding {
/**
* Return the binding that this specialization specializes.
* @return the original binding that this is a specialization of
*/
public IBinding getSpecializedBinding();
/**
* Returns the mapping of template parameters to values.
* @since 5.1
*/
public ICPPTemplateParameterMap getTemplateParameterMap();
/**
* @deprecated use {@link #getTemplateParameterMap()}, instead.
*/
@Deprecated
public ObjectMap getArgumentMap();
}