Oh, that's right. I was dealing with StaticInstPtr before. It'd be nice to be able to separate that as well.
Gabe Ali Saidi wrote: > PacketPtr and PacketReq aren't reference counting. We just starting > using them incase we wanted reference counting pointers. Looking at > the code we do a reasonably job of using PacketPtr everywhere, but > RequestPtr is used maybe 40% of the time. > > Ali > > On Aug 24, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Gabe Black wrote: > > >> nathan binkert wrote: >> >>>> Is there a way to forward declare a typedef? We used PacketPtr and >>>> RequestPtr all over the place in header files which requires >>>> including >>>> packet.hh and request.hh. However, in many cases the only reason we >>>> need to include the header files is because of the typedef. >>>> >>>> >>> There is no way to forward declare a typedef, though you can just >>> define the typedef twice. We could create a file like >>> src/mem/forward.hh and stick the few typedefs that we need in it. >>> >>> iosfwd from the standard library is an example of this sort of file. >>> >>> Nate >>> _______________________________________________ >>> m5-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev >>> >>> >> I may be mangling this a little since I haven't looked at it in a >> while, >> but I think there's a basically unbreakable string of dependencies >> between, for instance, PacketPtr and the Packet class, namely >> PacketPtr >> typedef => PacketPtr reference counting pointer => Packet class. I >> think >> it's pretty much reduced to just those elements as is, so all you'd be >> doing is moving it around. Can you forward declare the reference >> counting pointer class and then use it in a typedef? I was under the >> impression you couldn't. >> >> Gabe >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
