/*******************************************************************************

 * Copyright (c) 2008 Wind River and others.

 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials

 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0

 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at

 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html

 * 

 * Contributors:

 *     Wind River (Ted Williams) - initial API and implementation

 *******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.debug.core.model;

import org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException;

/**

 * A memory address represents the address of a variable.

 * <p>

 * Clients may implement this interface.

 * </p>

 * * @since 3.5

 */

public interface IMemoryAddress extends IDebugElement {

	/**

	 * Returns this values memory address as a <code>BigInteger</code>.

	 *

	 * @return a BigInteger representation of the memory address

	 * @exception DebugException if this method fails.  Reasons include:

	 * <ul><li>Failure communicating with the VM.  The DebugException's

	 * status code contains the underlying exception responsible for

	 * the failure.</li>

	 */

	public BigInteger getValueAddress() throws DebugException;

}