Struct BasicBlock

pub struct BasicBlock {
    private_use_as_methods_instead: u32,
}

A node in the MIR control-flow graph.

There are no branches (e.g., ifs, function calls, etc.) within a basic block, which makes it easier to do data-flow analyses and optimizations. Instead, branches are represented as an edge in a graph between basic blocks.

Basic blocks consist of a series of statements, ending with a terminator. Basic blocks can have multiple predecessors and successors, however there is a MIR pass (CriticalCallEdges) that removes critical edges, which are edges that go from a multi-successor node to a multi-predecessor node. This pass is needed because some analyses require that there are no critical edges in the CFG.

Note that this type is just an index into Body.basic_blocks; the actual data that a basic block holds is in BasicBlockData.

Read more about basic blocks in the rustc-dev-guide.

Fields

private_use_as_methods_instead: u32