Generate more useful error messages for unconnected ports.

Force all non-default ports to provide a name and an
owner in the constructor.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/mem_object.hh b/src/mem/mem_object.hh
index 33b56dfd4..a91ea5ac4 100644
--- a/src/mem/mem_object.hh
+++ b/src/mem/mem_object.hh
@@ -64,9 +64,13 @@ class MemObject : public SimObject
     /** Additional function to return the Port of a memory object. */
     virtual Port *getPort(const std::string &if_name, int idx = -1) = 0;
 
-    /** Tell object that this port is about to disappear, so it should remove it
-     * from any structures that it's keeping it in. */
-    virtual void deletePortRefs(Port *p) ;
+    /** Tell MemObject that this port is no longer in use, so it
+     * should remove it from any structures that it's keeping it in.
+     * If the port was allocated dynamically for this connection, it
+     * should be deleted here.
+     * @return True if the port was deleted, false if it still exists.
+     */
+    virtual bool deletePort(Port *p);
 };
 
 #endif //__MEM_MEM_OBJECT_HH__