[llvm] [LLVM][ADT] Add `consume_front` member to ArrayRef (PR #146741)

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Author: Rahul Joshi (jurahul)

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Add `consume_front` that returns the front element and drops it from the current ArrayRef.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/146741.diff


2 Files Affected:

- (modified) llvm/include/llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h (+14) 
- (modified) llvm/unittests/ADT/ArrayRefTest.cpp (+9) 


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diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h b/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h
index 7fe43c99e34a7..93481f285e126 100644
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h
@@ -158,6 +158,13 @@ namespace llvm {
       return Data[Length-1];
     }
 
+    /// consume_front() - Returns the first element and drops it from ArrayRef.
+    const T &consume_front() {
+      const T &Ret = front();
+      *this = drop_front();
+      return Ret;
+    }
+
     // copy - Allocate copy in Allocator and return ArrayRef<T> to it.
     template <typename Allocator> MutableArrayRef<T> copy(Allocator &A) {
       T *Buff = A.template Allocate<T>(Length);
@@ -352,6 +359,13 @@ namespace llvm {
       return data()[this->size()-1];
     }
 
+    /// consume_front() - Returns the first element and drops it from ArrayRef.
+    T &consume_front() {
+      const T &Ret = front();
+      *this = drop_front();
+      return Ret;
+    }
+
     /// slice(n, m) - Chop off the first N elements of the array, and keep M
     /// elements in the array.
     MutableArrayRef<T> slice(size_t N, size_t M) const {
diff --git a/llvm/unittests/ADT/ArrayRefTest.cpp b/llvm/unittests/ADT/ArrayRefTest.cpp
index 985db1625454c..1f40b1e401c0b 100644
--- a/llvm/unittests/ADT/ArrayRefTest.cpp
+++ b/llvm/unittests/ADT/ArrayRefTest.cpp
@@ -104,6 +104,15 @@ TEST(ArrayRefTest, DropFront) {
   EXPECT_TRUE(AR1.drop_front(2).equals(AR2));
 }
 
+TEST(ArrayRefTest, ConsumeFront) {
+  static const int TheNumbers[] = {4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42};
+  ArrayRef<int> AR1(TheNumbers);
+  ArrayRef<int> AR2(&TheNumbers[2], AR1.size() - 2);
+  EXPECT_EQ(AR1.consume_front(), 4);
+  EXPECT_EQ(AR1.consume_front(), 8);
+  EXPECT_TRUE(AR1.equals(AR2));
+}
+
 TEST(ArrayRefTest, DropWhile) {
   static const int TheNumbers[] = {1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11};
   ArrayRef<int> AR1(TheNumbers);

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/146741