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RefCount: Add a unit test for reference counting pointers.

Review Request #365 - Created Jan. 3, 2011 and submitted - Latest diff uploaded

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Gabe Black
gem5
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ali, gblack, nate, stever
RefCount: Add a unit test for reference counting pointers.

This test exercises each of the functions in the reference counting pointer
implementation individually (except get()) and verifies they have some
minimially expected behavior. It also checks that reference counted objects
are freed when their usage count goes to 0 in some basic situations,
specifically a pointer being set to NULL and a pointer being deleted.