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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef ART_COMPILER_OPTIMIZING_NODES_ARM_H_
+#define ART_COMPILER_OPTIMIZING_NODES_ARM_H_
+
+namespace art {
+
+class HArmDexCacheArraysBase : public HExpression<0> {
+ public:
+  explicit HArmDexCacheArraysBase(const DexFile& dex_file)
+      : HExpression(Primitive::kPrimInt, SideEffects::None(), kNoDexPc),
+        dex_file_(&dex_file),
+        element_offset_(static_cast<size_t>(-1)) { }
+
+  void UpdateElementOffset(size_t element_offset) {
+    // Use the lowest offset from the requested elements so that all offsets from
+    // this base are non-negative because our assemblers emit negative-offset loads
+    // as a sequence of two or more instructions. (However, positive offsets beyond
+    // 4KiB also require two or more instructions, so this simple heuristic could
+    // be improved for cases where there is a dense cluster of elements far from
+    // the lowest offset. This is expected to be rare enough though, so we choose
+    // not to spend compile time on elaborate calculations.)
+    element_offset_ = std::min(element_offset_, element_offset);
+  }
+
+  const DexFile& GetDexFile() const {
+    return *dex_file_;
+  }
+
+  size_t GetElementOffset() const {
+    return element_offset_;
+  }
+
+  DECLARE_INSTRUCTION(ArmDexCacheArraysBase);
+
+ private:
+  const DexFile* dex_file_;
+  size_t element_offset_;
+
+  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(HArmDexCacheArraysBase);
+};
+
+}  // namespace art
+
+#endif  // ART_COMPILER_OPTIMIZING_NODES_ARM_H_