Add variable_buffer::pointer()

Change-Id: I4018509b00898c6ce9706c62d2d956a1019126aa
Reviewed-on: http://gfw160.aus.stglabs.ibm.com:8080/gerrit/16819
Reviewed-by: Thi N. Tran <thi@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: PRACHI GUPTA <pragupta@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: STEPHEN M. CPREK <smcprek@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Silver <bsilver@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Brian Silver <bsilver@us.ibm.com>

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/import/hwpf/fapi2/include/buffer.H b/import/hwpf/fapi2/include/buffer.H
index 7e3d70a6..f7a7cf4c 100644
--- a/import/hwpf/fapi2/include/buffer.H
+++ b/import/hwpf/fapi2/include/buffer.H
@@ -236,6 +236,12 @@ namespace fapi2
         /// @name Buffer Manipulation Functions
         ///@{
 
+        ///
+        /// @brief Get a pointer to the buffer bits
+        /// @return Pointer to the buffer itself
+        ///
+        inline T* pointer(void) { return &this->iv_data; }
+
         // Note: Many (all?) of these are not needed and the compiler complains
         // as the cast to T yields a better operator. There are here mainly for
         // documenation purposes.
diff --git a/import/hwpf/fapi2/include/buffer_parameters.H b/import/hwpf/fapi2/include/buffer_parameters.H
index 49d5444d..b5717188 100644
--- a/import/hwpf/fapi2/include/buffer_parameters.H
+++ b/import/hwpf/fapi2/include/buffer_parameters.H
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ namespace fapi2
         // Why constexpr functions? Enums are hard to do math on, and
         // static const doesn't work without -O1 (or greater.) That might
         // be a bug in g++ but this works just the same.
-        constexpr static uint32_t mask(void)
+        constexpr static T mask(void)
             { return T(~0); }
 
         constexpr static uint32_t byte_length(void)