I support this.  This is useful especially in layered and modular environments.

How about changing the names of these to simply SceMi::Pointer() and SceMiPointer()?  Also, we might want to add a SceMiEC argument for symmetry and to open the door for those implementations that would want to do some extra sanity checking besides just returning the pointer.

Per

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Cadence would like to propose the addition of a convenience method/function to retrieve a pointer to the SceMi object, if it has been successfully Init'ed:

   C++:
   static SceMi *
   SceMi::ObjectPointer();

   C:
   SceMi *
   SceMiObjectPointer();

   Returns a pointer to the already-initialized SceMi object, or NULL if
   SceMi::Init() (SceMiInit) has not been successfully called.

(I understand we're at the eleventh hour w/ respect to closing out the
issues list for SCE-MI 1.?...   Hopefully this is not a contentious
issue.)

Please weigh in with objections to this, to be sure, but also with any naming convention that is or is not being followed with this proposed addition.

Matt