From: Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:48:06 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: refcnt: Change things around so that we handle constness correctly.
X-Git-Tag: stable_2012_02_02~630
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=048b1e5843494be33b08cd42a3f0bb16e5d320cc;p=gem5.git

refcnt: Change things around so that we handle constness correctly.
To use a non const pointer:
typedef RefCountingPtr<Foo> FooPtr;

To use a const pointer:
typedef RefCountingPtr<const Foo> ConstFooPtr;
---

diff --git a/src/base/refcnt.hh b/src/base/refcnt.hh
index b73183a1a..1c10cc0ea 100644
--- a/src/base/refcnt.hh
+++ b/src/base/refcnt.hh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 class RefCounted
 {
   private:
-    int count;
+    mutable int count;
 
   private:
     // Don't allow a default copy constructor or copy operator on
@@ -84,13 +84,9 @@ class RefCountingPtr
     RefCountingPtr(const RefCountingPtr &r) { copy(r.data); }
     ~RefCountingPtr() { del(); }
 
-    T *operator->() { return data; }
-    T &operator*() { return *data; }
-    T *get() { return data; }
-
-    const T *operator->() const { return data; }
-    const T &operator*() const { return *data; }
-    const T *get() const { return data; }
+    T *operator->() const { return data; }
+    T &operator*() const { return *data; }
+    T *get() const { return data; }
 
     const RefCountingPtr &operator=(T *p) { set(p); return *this; }
     const RefCountingPtr &operator=(const RefCountingPtr &r)