RefCounted Class Reference

Derive from RefCounted if you want to enable reference counting of this class. More...

#include <refcnt.hh>

Inheritance diagram for RefCounted:

Public Member Functions
	RefCounted ()
	We initialize the reference count to zero and the first object to take ownership of it must increment it to one. More...
virtual	~RefCounted ()
	We make the destructor virtual because we're likely to have virtual functions on reference counted objects. More...
void	incref () const
	Increment the reference count. More...
void	decref () const
	Decrement the reference count and destroy the object if all references are gone. More...

Private Member Functions
	RefCounted (const RefCounted &)
RefCounted &	operator= (const RefCounted &)

Private Attributes
int	count

Detailed Description

Derive from RefCounted if you want to enable reference counting of this class.

If you want to use automatic reference counting, you should use RefCountingPtr<T> instead of regular pointers.

Definition at line 57 of file refcnt.hh.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

RefCounted() [1/2]

RefCounted::RefCounted ( const RefCounted &  )

private

RefCounted() [2/2]

RefCounted::RefCounted ( )

inline

We initialize the reference count to zero and the first object to take ownership of it must increment it to one.

Attention

A memory leak will occur if you never assign a newly constructed object to a reference counting pointer.

Definition at line 81 of file refcnt.hh.

~RefCounted()

virtual RefCounted::~RefCounted ( )

inlinevirtual

We make the destructor virtual because we're likely to have virtual functions on reference counted objects.

Todo:

Even if this were true, does it matter? Shouldn't the derived class indicate this? This only matters if we would ever choose to delete a "RefCounted *" which I doubt we'd ever do. We don't ever delete a "void *".

Definition at line 92 of file refcnt.hh.

Member Function Documentation

decref()

void RefCounted::decref ( ) const

inline

Decrement the reference count and destroy the object if all references are gone.

Definition at line 99 of file refcnt.hh.

References count.

incref()

void RefCounted::incref ( ) const

inline

Increment the reference count.

Definition at line 95 of file refcnt.hh.

References count.

operator=()

RefCounted& RefCounted::operator= ( const RefCounted &  )

private

Member Data Documentation

count

int RefCounted::count

mutableprivate

Definition at line 64 of file refcnt.hh.

Referenced by ArmISA::ArmStaticInst::cSwap(), decref(), incref(), and ArmISA::MacroVFPMemOp::MacroVFPMemOp().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• base/refcnt.hh