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I see a bunch of definitions scattered throughout LLVM, and I could not find good documentation on them. I don't understand why they exist when LLVM is being compiled with RTTI enabled. It seems to me that: isa<T>(x) is a substitute for (dynamic_cast<T>(x) != NULL) and there are some other similar casting tools defined in Casting.h. Why should I use these instead of C++'s