Add a new utility class TypeSwitch to ADT.
This class provides a simplified mechanism for defining a switch over a set of types using llvm casting functionality. More specifically, this allows for defining a switch over a value of type T where each case corresponds to a type(CaseT) that can be used with dyn_cast<CaseT>(...). An example is shown below: // Traditional piece of code: Operation *op = ...; if (auto constant = dyn_cast<ConstantOp>(op)) ...; else if (auto return = dyn_cast<ReturnOp>(op)) ...; else ...; // New piece of code: Operation *op = ...; TypeSwitch<Operation *>(op) .Case<ConstantOp>([](ConstantOp constant) { ... }) .Case<ReturnOp>([](ReturnOp return) { ... }) .Default([](Operation *op) { ... }); Aside from the above, TypeSwitch supports return values, void return, multiple types per case, etc. The usability is intended to be very similar to StringSwitch. (Using c++14 template lambdas makes everything even nicer) More complex example of how this makes certain things easier: LogicalResult process(Constant op); LogicalResult process(ReturnOp op); LogicalResult process(FuncOp op); TypeSwitch<Operation *, LogicalResult>(op) .Case<ConstantOp, ReturnOp, FuncOp>([](auto op) { return process(op); }) .Default([](Operation *op) { return op->emitError() << "could not be processed"; }); PiperOrigin-RevId: 286003613
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