Question

For arguments passed by reference, their original simulator-defined representation shall be used and a reference (a pointer) to the actual data object is passed. The actual argument is usually allocated by a caller. The caller can also pass a reference to an object already allocated somewhere else, for example, its own formal argument passed by reference.

If an argument of type T is passed by reference, the formal argument shall be of type T*. However, packed arrays can also be passed using generic pointers void* (typedefed accordingly to svBitPackedArrRef or svLogicPackedArrRef).