MEM: Make port proxies use references rather than pointers

This patch is adding a clearer design intent to all objects that would
not be complete without a port proxy by making the proxies members
rathen than dynamically allocated. In essence, if NULL would not be a
valid value for the proxy, then we avoid using a pointer to make this
clear.

The same approach is used for the methods using these proxies, such as
loadSections, that now use references rather than pointers to better
reflect the fact that NULL would not be an acceptable value (in fact
the code would break and that is how this patch started out).

Overall the concept of "using a reference to express unconditional
composition where a NULL pointer is never valid" could be done on a
much broader scale throughout the code base, but for now it is only
done in the locations affected by the proxies.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/src/arch/x86/bios/intelmp.hh b/src/arch/x86/bios/intelmp.hh
index 4b730ad4b..909f8ad79 100644
--- a/src/arch/x86/bios/intelmp.hh
+++ b/src/arch/x86/bios/intelmp.hh
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class FloatingPointer : public SimObject
 
   public:
 
-    Addr writeOut(PortProxy* proxy, Addr addr);
+    Addr writeOut(PortProxy& proxy, Addr addr);
 
     Addr getTableAddr()
     {
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class BaseConfigEntry : public SimObject
 
   public:
 
-    virtual Addr writeOut(PortProxy* proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
+    virtual Addr writeOut(PortProxy& proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
 
     BaseConfigEntry(Params * p, uint8_t _type);
 };
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ class ExtConfigEntry : public SimObject
 
   public:
 
-    virtual Addr writeOut(PortProxy* proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
+    virtual Addr writeOut(PortProxy& proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
 
     ExtConfigEntry(Params * p, uint8_t _type, uint8_t _length);
 };
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ class ConfigTable : public SimObject
     std::vector<ExtConfigEntry *> extEntries;
 
   public:
-    Addr writeOut(PortProxy* proxy, Addr addr);
+    Addr writeOut(PortProxy& proxy, Addr addr);
 
     ConfigTable(Params * p);
 };
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ class Processor : public BaseConfigEntry
     uint32_t featureFlags;
 
   public:
-    Addr writeOut(PortProxy* proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
+    Addr writeOut(PortProxy& proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
 
     Processor(Params * p);
 };
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ class Bus : public BaseConfigEntry
     std::string busType;
 
   public:
-    Addr writeOut(PortProxy* proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
+    Addr writeOut(PortProxy& proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
 
     Bus(Params * p);
 };
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ class IOAPIC : public BaseConfigEntry
     uint32_t address;
 
   public:
-    Addr writeOut(PortProxy* proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
+    Addr writeOut(PortProxy& proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
 
     IOAPIC(Params * p);
 };
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ class IntAssignment : public BaseConfigEntry
     uint8_t destApicIntIn;
 
   public:
-    Addr writeOut(PortProxy* proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
+    Addr writeOut(PortProxy& proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
 
     IntAssignment(X86IntelMPBaseConfigEntryParams * p,
             Enums::X86IntelMPInterruptType _interruptType,
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ class AddrSpaceMapping : public ExtConfigEntry
     uint64_t addrLength;
 
   public:
-    Addr writeOut(PortProxy* proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
+    Addr writeOut(PortProxy& proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
 
     AddrSpaceMapping(Params * p);
 };
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ class BusHierarchy : public ExtConfigEntry
     uint8_t parentBus;
 
   public:
-    Addr writeOut(PortProxy* proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
+    Addr writeOut(PortProxy& proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
 
     BusHierarchy(Params * p);
 };
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ class CompatAddrSpaceMod : public ExtConfigEntry
     uint32_t rangeList;
 
   public:
-    Addr writeOut(PortProxy* proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
+    Addr writeOut(PortProxy& proxy, Addr addr, uint8_t &checkSum);
 
     CompatAddrSpaceMod(Params * p);
 };