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Commit 9a6be8b3 authored by Chandler Carruth's avatar Chandler Carruth
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[ADT] Add a generic iterator utility for adapting iterators much like

Boost's iterator_adaptor, and a specific adaptor which iterates over
pointees when wrapped around an iterator over pointers.

This is the result of a long discussion on IRC with Duncan Smith, Dave
Blaikie, Richard Smith, and myself. Essentially, I could use some subset
of the iterator facade facilities often used from Boost, and everyone
seemed interested in having the functionality in a reasonably generic
form. I've tried to strike a balance between the pragmatism and the
established Boost design. The primary differences are:

1) Delegating to the standard iterator interface names rather than
   special names that then make up a second iterator-like API.
2) Using the name 'pointee_iterator' which seems more clear than
   'indirect_iterator'. The whole business of calling the '*p' operation
   'pointer indirection' in the standard is ... quite confusing. And
   'dereference' is no better of a term for moving from a pointer to
   a reference.

Hoping Duncan, and others continue to provide comments on this until
we've got a nice, minimal abstraction.

llvm-svn: 207069
parent 7c3ccb03
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