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<main><divclass="width-limiter"><navclass="sub"><formclass="search-form"><span></span><divid="sidebar-button"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../../inkwell/all.html"title="show sidebar"></a></div><inputclass="search-input"name="search"aria-label="Run search in the documentation"autocomplete="off"spellcheck="false"placeholder="Click or press ‘S’ to search, ‘?’ for more options…"type="search"><divid="help-button"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../../help.html"title="help">?</a></div><divid="settings-menu"tabindex="-1"><ahref="../../settings.html"title="settings"><imgwidth="22"height="22"alt="Change settings"src="../../static.files/wheel-7b819b6101059cd0.svg"></a></div></form></nav><sectionid="main-content"class="content"><divclass="main-heading"><h1>Trait <ahref="../index.html">inkwell</a>::<wbr><ahref="index.html">types</a>::<wbr><aclass="trait"href="#">BasicType</a><buttonid="copy-path"title="Copy item path to clipboard"><imgsrc="../../static.files/clipboard-7571035ce49a181d.svg"width="19"height="18"alt="Copy item path"></button></h1><spanclass="out-of-band"><aclass="src"href="../../src/inkwell/types/traits.rs.html#39-143">source</a> · <buttonid="toggle-all-docs"title="collapse all docs">[<span>−</span>]</button></span></div><preclass="rust item-decl"><code>pub unsafe trait BasicType<'ctx>: <aclass="trait"href="trait.AnyType.html"title="trait inkwell::types::AnyType">AnyType</a><'ctx> {
}</code></pre><detailsclass="toggle top-doc"open><summaryclass="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Represents a basic LLVM type, that may be used in functions and struct definitions.</p>
</div></details><h2id="provided-methods"class="section-header">Provided Methods<ahref="#provided-methods"class="anchor">§</a></h2><divclass="methods"><detailsclass="toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.as_basic_type_enum"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/inkwell/types/traits.rs.html#41-43">source</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="#method.as_basic_type_enum"class="fn">as_basic_type_enum</a>(&self) -><aclass="enum"href="enum.BasicTypeEnum.html"title="enum inkwell::types::BasicTypeEnum">BasicTypeEnum</a><'ctx></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Returns a <code>BasicTypeEnum</code> that represents the current type.</p>
) -><aclass="struct"href="struct.FunctionType.html"title="struct inkwell::types::FunctionType">FunctionType</a><'ctx></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Create a <code>FunctionType</code> with this <code>BasicType</code> as its return type.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.is_sized"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/inkwell/types/traits.rs.html#77-79">source</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="#method.is_sized"class="fn">is_sized</a>(&self) -><aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.78.0/std/primitive.bool.html">bool</a></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Determines whether or not this <code>BasicType</code> is sized or not.
</div></details><detailsclass="toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.size_of"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/inkwell/types/traits.rs.html#94-96">source</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="#method.size_of"class="fn">size_of</a>(&self) -><aclass="enum"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.78.0/core/option/enum.Option.html"title="enum core::option::Option">Option</a><<aclass="struct"href="../values/struct.IntValue.html"title="struct inkwell::values::IntValue">IntValue</a><'ctx>></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Gets the size of this <code>BasicType</code>. Value may vary depending on the target architecture.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.array_type"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/inkwell/types/traits.rs.html#111-113">source</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="#method.array_type"class="fn">array_type</a>(&self, size: <aclass="primitive"href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.78.0/std/primitive.u32.html">u32</a>) -><aclass="struct"href="struct.ArrayType.html"title="struct inkwell::types::ArrayType">ArrayType</a><'ctx></h4></section></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Create an <code>ArrayType</code> with this <code>BasicType</code> as its elements.</p>
</div></details><detailsclass="toggle method-toggle"open><summary><sectionid="method.ptr_type"class="method"><aclass="src rightside"href="../../src/inkwell/types/traits.rs.html#140-142">source</a><h4class="code-header">fn <ahref="#method.ptr_type"class="fn">ptr_type</a>(&self, address_space: <aclass="struct"href="../struct.AddressSpace.html"title="struct inkwell::AddressSpace">AddressSpace</a>) -><aclass="struct"href="struct.PointerType.html"title="struct inkwell::types::PointerType">PointerType</a><'ctx></h4></section><spanclass="item-info"><divclass="stab deprecated"><spanclass="emoji">👎</span><span>Deprecated: Starting from version 15.0, LLVM doesn’t differentiate between pointer types. Use Context::ptr_type instead.</span></div></span></summary><divclass="docblock"><p>Create a <code>PointerType</code> that points to this <code>BasicType</code>.</p>
