analyzer: expand the comment in region.h

gcc/analyzer/ChangeLog:
	* region.h: Add notes to the comment describing the region
	class hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com>

diff --git a/gcc/analyzer/region.h b/gcc/analyzer/region.h
index 1067748a7cd18bd70e59f0d20bfab4c529cd77a7..a5b30299ec666e7eb1b741032f8652acb7e663ce 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/analyzer/region.h
+++ b/gcc/analyzer/region.h
@@ -72,27 +72,37 @@ enum region_kind
 
    region
      space_region
-       frame_region (RK_FRAME)
-       globals_region (RK_GLOBALS)
-       code_region (RK_CODE)
-       stack_region (RK_STACK)
-       heap_region (RK_HEAP)
-     root_region (RK_ROOT)
-     function_region (RK_FUNCTION)
-     label_region (RK_LABEL)
-     symbolic_region (RK_SYMBOLIC)
-     decl_region (RK_DECL),
-     field_region (RK_FIELD)
-     element_region (RK_ELEMENT)
-     offset_region (RK_OFFSET)
-     sized_region (RK_SIZED)
-     cast_region (RK_CAST)
-     heap_allocated_region (RK_HEAP_ALLOCATED)
-     alloca_region (RK_ALLOCA)
-     string_region (RK_STRING)
-     bit_range_region (RK_BIT_RANGE)
-     var_arg_region (RK_VAR_ARG)
-     unknown_region (RK_UNKNOWN).  */
+       frame_region (RK_FRAME): a function frame on the stack
+       globals_region (RK_GLOBALS): holds globals variables (data and bss)
+       code_region (RK_CODE): represents the code segment, containing functions
+       stack_region (RK_STACK): a stack, containing all stack frames
+       heap_region (RK_HEAP): the heap, containing heap_allocated_regions
+     root_region (RK_ROOT): the top-level region
+     function_region (RK_FUNCTION): the code for a particular function
+     label_region (RK_LABEL): a particular label within a function
+     symbolic_region (RK_SYMBOLIC): dereferencing a symbolic pointer
+     decl_region (RK_DECL): the memory occupied by a particular global, local,
+                           or SSA name
+     field_region (RK_FIELD): the memory occupied by a field within a struct
+                             or union
+     element_region (RK_ELEMENT): an element within an array
+     offset_region (RK_OFFSET): a byte-offset within another region, for
+                               handling pointer arithmetic as a region
+     sized_region (RK_SIZED): a subregion of symbolic size (in bytes)
+                             within its parent
+     cast_region (RK_CAST): a region that views another region using a
+                           different type
+     heap_allocated_region (RK_HEAP_ALLOCATED): an untyped region dynamically
+                                               allocated on the heap via
+                                               "malloc" or similar
+     alloca_region (RK_ALLOCA): an untyped region dynamically allocated on the
+                               stack via "alloca"
+     string_region (RK_STRING): a region for a STRING_CST
+     bit_range_region (RK_BIT_RANGE): a region for a specific range of bits
+                                     within another region
+     var_arg_region (RK_VAR_ARG): a region for the N-th vararg within a
+                                 frame_region for a variadic call
+     unknown_region (RK_UNKNOWN): for handling unimplemented tree codes.  */
 
 /* Abstract base class for representing ways of accessing chunks of memory.