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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2001-2003 The Regents of The University of Michigan
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
 * met: redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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 * neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of its
 * contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
 * this software without specific prior written permission.
 *
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 */

//
//  Abstract base class for a generic predictor
//
//

#ifndef __PREDICTOR_HH__
#define __PREDICTOR_HH__

class GenericPredictor {

  public:
    virtual void clear() = 0;

    virtual unsigned predict(unsigned long _index) = 0;
    virtual unsigned predict(unsigned long _index, unsigned &pdata) = 0;

    virtual unsigned peek(unsigned long _index) = 0;

    virtual void record(unsigned long _index, unsigned _actual_value,
                        unsigned _pred_value) = 0;
    virtual void record(unsigned long _index, unsigned _actual_value,
                        unsigned _pred_value, unsigned _pdata) = 0;

    virtual unsigned value(unsigned long _index) = 0;

    virtual void regStats() = 0;
    virtual void regFormulas() = 0;

    virtual ~GenericPredictor() {};
};

#endif //  __PREDICTOR_HH__