Name

The diagrams below draw one box per node kind, with one port per field. The edge colours say how a link is held; they are listed in full on the Fields page.

Iir_Kind_Character_Literal

Format: Short

Accessor	Field	Type	Access	Description
Type	Field1	Iir	ref	—
Identifier	Field3	Name_Id	owned	Get/Set the identifier of a declaration. Can also be used instead of get/set_label.
Named_Entity	Field4	Iir	maybe forward ref	The named entity designated by a name.
Base_Name	Field5	Iir	ref	The base name of a name is the node at the origin of the name. The base name is a declaration (signal, object, constant or interface), a selected_by_all name, an implicit_dereference name.
Is_Forward_Ref	Flag1	Boolean	owned	—
Expr_Staticness	State1	Iir_Staticness	owned	Expression staticness, defined by rules of LRM 7.4
Name_Staticness	State2	Iir_Staticness	owned	Staticness of a name, according to rules of LRM 6.1

Iir_Kind_Simple_Name

Format: Short

Accessor	Field	Type	Access	Description
Identifier	Field3	Name_Id	owned	Get/Set the identifier of a declaration. Can also be used instead of get/set_label.
Named_Entity	Field4	Iir	maybe forward ref	The named entity designated by a name.
Type	Field1	Iir	ref	—
Base_Name	Field5	Iir	ref	The base name of a name is the node at the origin of the name. The base name is a declaration (signal, object, constant or interface), a selected_by_all name, an implicit_dereference name.
Is_Forward_Ref	Flag1	Boolean	owned	—
Expr_Staticness	State1	Iir_Staticness	owned	Expression staticness, defined by rules of LRM 7.4
Name_Staticness	State2	Iir_Staticness	owned	Staticness of a name, according to rules of LRM 6.1

Iir_Kind_Selected_Name

Format: Short

Accessor	Field	Type	Access	Description
Prefix	Field0	Iir	owned	Prefix of a name.
Type	Field1	Iir	ref	—
Identifier	Field3	Name_Id	owned	Get/Set the identifier of a declaration. Can also be used instead of get/set_label.
Named_Entity	Field4	Iir	maybe forward ref	The named entity designated by a name.
Base_Name	Field5	Iir	ref	The base name of a name is the node at the origin of the name. The base name is a declaration (signal, object, constant or interface), a selected_by_all name, an implicit_dereference name.
Is_Forward_Ref	Flag1	Boolean	owned	—
Expr_Staticness	State1	Iir_Staticness	owned	Expression staticness, defined by rules of LRM 7.4
Name_Staticness	State2	Iir_Staticness	owned	Staticness of a name, according to rules of LRM 6.1

Iir_Kind_Operator_Symbol

Format: Short

Accessor	Field	Type	Access	Description
Type	Field1	Iir	ref	—
Identifier	Field3	Name_Id	owned	Get/Set the identifier of a declaration. Can also be used instead of get/set_label.
Named_Entity	Field4	Iir	maybe forward ref	The named entity designated by a name.
Base_Name	Field5	Iir	ref	The base name of a name is the node at the origin of the name. The base name is a declaration (signal, object, constant or interface), a selected_by_all name, an implicit_dereference name.
Is_Forward_Ref	Flag1	Boolean	owned	—

Iir_Kind_Reference_Name

This doesn’t correspond to a name in the sources. This is an artificial name in the tree which is owned and reference another name.

Format: Short

Accessor	Field	Type	Access	Description
Type	Field1	Iir	ref	—
Named_Entity	Field4	Iir	maybe forward ref	The named entity designated by a name.
Referenced_Name	Field2	Iir	ref	The name from which the reference was created. Can be Null_Iir if the reference was created directly from a declaration.
Is_Forward_Ref	Flag1	Boolean	owned	—
Expr_Staticness	State1	Iir_Staticness	owned	Expression staticness, defined by rules of LRM 7.4

Iir_Kind_External_Constant_Name

Format: Short

Accessor	Field	Type	Access	Description
Parent	Field0	Iir	ref	Get/Set the statement in which TARGET appears. This is used to check if next/exit is in a loop.
Type	Field1	Iir	ref	—
Attr_Chain	Field2	Iir	forward ref	—
External_Pathname	Field3	Iir	owned	External pathname for an external name.
Named_Entity	Field4	Iir	maybe forward ref	The named entity designated by a name.
Subtype_Indication	Field5	Iir	maybe ref	The subtype indication of a declaration. If several declarations share the same subtype_indication like in: variable a, b : integer := 5; then only the first declaration is the owner of the subtype_indication.
Expr_Staticness	State1	Iir_Staticness	owned	Expression staticness, defined by rules of LRM 7.4
Name_Staticness	State2	Iir_Staticness	owned	Staticness of a name, according to rules of LRM 6.1
Is_Forward_Ref	Flag1	Boolean	owned	—
Is_Ref	Flag12	Boolean	owned	Set to True if Maybe_Ref fields are references. This cannot be shared with Has_Identifier_List as: Is_Ref is set to True on all items but the first, while Has_Identifier_List is set to True on all items but the last. Furthermore Is_Ref appears in nodes where Has_Identifier_List is not present.

Iir_Kind_External_Signal_Name

Format: Short

Accessor	Field	Type	Access	Description
Parent	Field0	Iir	ref	Get/Set the statement in which TARGET appears. This is used to check if next/exit is in a loop.
Type	Field1	Iir	ref	—
Attr_Chain	Field2	Iir	forward ref	—
External_Pathname	Field3	Iir	owned	External pathname for an external name.
Named_Entity	Field4	Iir	maybe forward ref	The named entity designated by a name.
Subtype_Indication	Field5	Iir	maybe ref	The subtype indication of a declaration. If several declarations share the same subtype_indication like in: variable a, b : integer := 5; then only the first declaration is the owner of the subtype_indication.
Has_Active_Flag	Flag2	Boolean	owned	This flag is set on a signal when its activity is read by the user. Some signals handling can be optimized when this flag is set.
After_Drivers_Flag	Flag5	Boolean	owned	This flag is set by trans_analyze if there is a projected waveform assignment in the process.
Guarded_Signal_Flag	Flag8	Boolean	owned	True if the signal is guarded (has a signal kind).
Signal_Kind	Flag9	Iir_Signal_Kind	owned	—
Expr_Staticness	State1	Iir_Staticness	owned	Expression staticness, defined by rules of LRM 7.4
Name_Staticness	State2	Iir_Staticness	owned	Staticness of a name, according to rules of LRM 6.1
Is_Forward_Ref	Flag1	Boolean	owned	—
Is_Ref	Flag12	Boolean	owned	Set to True if Maybe_Ref fields are references. This cannot be shared with Has_Identifier_List as: Is_Ref is set to True on all items but the first, while Has_Identifier_List is set to True on all items but the last. Furthermore Is_Ref appears in nodes where Has_Identifier_List is not present.

Iir_Kind_External_Variable_Name

Format: Short

Accessor	Field	Type	Access	Description
Parent	Field0	Iir	ref	Get/Set the statement in which TARGET appears. This is used to check if next/exit is in a loop.
Type	Field1	Iir	ref	—
Attr_Chain	Field2	Iir	forward ref	—
External_Pathname	Field3	Iir	owned	External pathname for an external name.
Named_Entity	Field4	Iir	maybe forward ref	The named entity designated by a name.
Subtype_Indication	Field5	Iir	maybe ref	The subtype indication of a declaration. If several declarations share the same subtype_indication like in: variable a, b : integer := 5; then only the first declaration is the owner of the subtype_indication.
Shared_Flag	Flag2	Boolean	owned	If true, the variable is declared shared.
Expr_Staticness	State1	Iir_Staticness	owned	Expression staticness, defined by rules of LRM 7.4
Name_Staticness	State2	Iir_Staticness	owned	Staticness of a name, according to rules of LRM 6.1
Is_Forward_Ref	Flag1	Boolean	owned	—
Is_Ref	Flag12	Boolean	owned	Set to True if Maybe_Ref fields are references. This cannot be shared with Has_Identifier_List as: Is_Ref is set to True on all items but the first, while Has_Identifier_List is set to True on all items but the last. Furthermore Is_Ref appears in nodes where Has_Identifier_List is not present.

Iir_Kind_Selected_By_All_Name

Format: Short

Accessor	Field	Type	Access	Description
Prefix	Field0	Iir	owned	Prefix of a name.
Type	Field1	Iir	ref	—
Named_Entity	Field4	Iir	maybe forward ref	The named entity designated by a name.
Base_Name	Field5	Iir	ref	The base name of a name is the node at the origin of the name. The base name is a declaration (signal, object, constant or interface), a selected_by_all name, an implicit_dereference name.
Is_Forward_Ref	Flag1	Boolean	owned	—
Expr_Staticness	State1	Iir_Staticness	owned	Expression staticness, defined by rules of LRM 7.4

Iir_Kind_Parenthesis_Name

Created by the parser, and mutated into the correct iir node: it can be either a function call, an indexed array, a type conversion or a slice name.

Format: Short

Accessor	Field	Type	Access	Description
Prefix	Field0	Iir	owned	Prefix of a name.
Type	Field1	Iir	ref	Always returns null_iir.
Association_Chain	Field2	Iir	chain	List of individual associations for association_element_by_individual. Associations for parenthesis_name.
Suffix	Field3	Iir	owned	Temporarly used during parse.
Named_Entity	Field4	Iir	maybe forward ref	The named entity designated by a name.
Is_Forward_Ref	Flag1	Boolean	owned	—