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package com.sun.org.apache.bcel.internal.generic;


/**
 * Equality of instructions isn't clearly to be defined. You might
 * wish, for example, to compare whether instructions have the same
 * meaning. E.g., whether two INVOKEVIRTUALs describe the same
 * call.<br>The DEFAULT comparator however, considers two instructions
 * to be equal if they have same opcode and point to the same indexes
 * (if any) in the constant pool or the same local variable index. Branch
 * instructions must have the same target.
 *
 * @see Instruction
 * @author <A HREF="mailto:markus.dahm@berlin.de">M. Dahm</A>
 */
public interface InstructionComparator {
  public static final InstructionComparator DEFAULT =
    new InstructionComparator() {
        public boolean equals(Instruction i1, Instruction i2) {
          if(i1.opcode == i2.opcode) {
            if(i1 instanceof Select) {
              InstructionHandle[] t1 = ((Select)i1).getTargets();
              InstructionHandle[] t2 = ((Select)i2).getTargets();

              if(t1.length == t2.length) {
                for(int i = 0; i < t1.length; i++) {
                  if(t1[i] != t2[i]) {
                    return false;
                  }
                }

                return true;
              }
            } else if(i1 instanceof BranchInstruction) {
              return ((BranchInstruction)i1).target ==
                ((BranchInstruction)i2).target;
            } else if(i1 instanceof ConstantPushInstruction) {
              return ((ConstantPushInstruction)i1).getValue().
                equals(((ConstantPushInstruction)i2).getValue());
            } else if(i1 instanceof IndexedInstruction) {
              return ((IndexedInstruction)i1).getIndex() ==
                ((IndexedInstruction)i2).getIndex();
            } else if(i1 instanceof NEWARRAY) {
              return ((NEWARRAY)i1).getTypecode() == ((NEWARRAY)i2).getTypecode();
            } else {
              return true;
            }
          }

          return false;
        }
      };

  public boolean equals(Instruction i1, Instruction i2);
}