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Diffstat (limited to 'mem/packet.hh')
| -rw-r--r-- | mem/packet.hh | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mem/packet.hh b/mem/packet.hh index ef28a7c9e..91e56385d 100644 --- a/mem/packet.hh +++ b/mem/packet.hh @@ -97,7 +97,11 @@ struct Packet /** A pointer to the data being transfered. It can be differnt sizes at each level of the heirarchy so it belongs in the packet, - not request*/ + not request. + This pointer may be NULL! If it isn't null when received by the producer + of data it refers to memory that has not been dynamically allocated. + Otherwise the producer should simply allocate dynamic memory to use. + */ PacketDataPtr data; /** Indicates the size of the request. */ |