"Factors representation of a basic block in the Call Flow Graph (CFG). A basic block is a sequence of instructions that always are executed sequentially and doesn't contain any internal branching. It has the following slots:"
{ { $slot "successors" } { "A " { $link vector } " of basic blocks that may be executed directly after this block. Most blocks only have one successor but a block that checks where an if-condition should branch to would have two for example." } }
{ { $slot "predecessors" } { "The opposite of successors -- a " { $link vector } " of basic blocks from which the execution may have arrived into this block." } }
{ { $slot "kill-block?" } { "The first and the last block in a cfg and all blocks containing " { $link ##call } " instructions are kill blocks. Kill blocks can't be optimized so they are omitted from certain optimization steps." } }
{ $description "Creates a new empty basic block. The " { $slot "id" } " slot is initialized with the value of the basic-block " { $link counter } "." } ;