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28-Jan-2019 |
Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> |
python: Fix native module initialisation on Python 3
The approach we currently use to register our native modules doesn't work on Python 3. Convert the code to use the Python inittab instead of the old ad-hoc method.
Change-Id: I961f8a33993c621473732faeaab955a882769a4b Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15979 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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11990:5fad911cc326 |
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29-Jan-2017 |
Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> |
base, sim, dev: Remove SWIG
Remove SWIG guards and SWIG-specific C++ code.
Change-Id: Icaad6720513b6f48153727ef3f70e0dba0df4bee Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2921 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
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11988:665cd5f8b52b |
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27-Feb-2017 |
Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> |
python: Use PyBind11 instead of SWIG for Python wrappers
Use the PyBind11 wrapping infrastructure instead of SWIG to generate wrappers for functionality that needs to be exported to Python. This has several benefits:
* PyBind11 can be redistributed with gem5, which means that we have full control of the version used. This avoid a large number of hard-to-debug SWIG issues we have seen in the past.
* PyBind11 doesn't rely on a custom C++ parser, instead it relies on wrappers being explicitly declared in C++. The leads to slightly more boiler-plate code in manually created wrappers, but doesn't doesn't increase the overall code size. A big benefit is that this avoids strange compilation errors when SWIG doesn't understand modern language features.
* Unlike SWIG, there is no risk that the wrapper code incorporates incorrect type casts (this has happened on numerous occasions in the past) since these will result in compile-time errors.
As a part of this change, the mechanism to define exported methods has been redesigned slightly. New methods can be exported either by declaring them in the SimObject declaration and decorating them with the cxxMethod decorator or by adding an instance of PyBindMethod/PyBindProperty to the cxx_exports class variable. The decorator has the added benefit of making it possible to add a docstring and naming the method's parameters.
The new wrappers have the following known issues:
* Global events can't be memory managed correctly. This was the case in SWIG as well.
Change-Id: I88c5a95b6cf6c32fa9e1ad31dfc08b2e8199a763 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Bardsley <andrew.bardsley@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2231 Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Pierre-Yves PĂ©neau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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28-Jun-2016 |
Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> |
scons: Track swig packages when loading embedded swig code
This patch changes how the embedded swig code is loaded to ensure that gem5 works with swig 3.0.9. For Python 2.7 and above, swig 3.0.9 now relies on importlib, and actually looks in the appropriate packages, even for the wrapped C code. However, the swig wrapper does not explicitly place the module in the right package (it just calls Py_InitModule), and we have to take explicit action to ensure that the swig code can be loaded. This patch adds the information to the generated wrappers and the appropriate calls to set the context as part of the swig initialisation.
Previous versions of swig used to fall back on looking in the global namespace for the wrappers (and still do for Python 2.6), but technically things should not work without the functionality in this patch.
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10453:d0365cc3d05f |
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16-Oct-2014 |
Andrew Bardsley <Andrew.Bardsley@arm.com> |
config: Add a --without-python option to build process
Add the ability to build libgem5 without embedded Python or the ability to configure with Python.
This is a prelude to a patch to allow config.ini files to be loaded into libgem5 using only C++ which would make embedding gem5 within other simulation systems easier.
This adds a few registration interfaces to things which cross between Python and C++. Namely: stats dumping and SimObject resolving
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19-Feb-2013 |
Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> |
scons: Add warning for missing declarations
This patch enables warnings for missing declarations. To avoid issues with SWIG-generated code, the warning is only applied to non-SWIG code.
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14-Apr-2012 |
Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> |
clang/gcc: Fix compilation issues with clang 3.0 and gcc 4.6
This patch addresses a number of minor issues that cause problems when compiling with clang >= 3.0 and gcc >= 4.6. Most importantly, it avoids using the deprecated ext/hash_map and instead uses unordered_map (and similarly so for the hash_set). To make use of the new STL containers, g++ and clang has to be invoked with "-std=c++0x", and this is now added for all gcc versions >= 4.6, and for clang >= 3.0. For gcc >= 4.3 and <= 4.5 and clang <= 3.0 we use the tr1 unordered_map to avoid the deprecation warning.
The addition of c++0x in turn causes a few problems, as the compiler is more stringent and adds a number of new warnings. Below, the most important issues are enumerated:
1) the use of namespaces is more strict, e.g. for isnan, and all headers opening the entire namespace std are now fixed.
2) another other issue caused by the more stringent compiler is the narrowing of the embedded python, which used to be a char array, and is now unsigned char since there were values larger than 128.
3) a particularly odd issue that arose with the new c++0x behaviour is found in range.hh, where the operator< causes gcc to complain about the template type parsing (the "<" is interpreted as the beginning of a template argument), and the problem seems to be related to the begin/end members introduced for the range-type iteration, which is a new feature in c++11.
As a minor update, this patch also fixes the build flags for the clang debug target that used to be shared with gcc and incorrectly use "-ggdb".
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09-Sep-2010 |
Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org> |
init: don't build files that centralize python and swig code
Instead of putting all object files into m5/object/__init__.py, interrogate the importer to find out what should be imported. Instead of creating a single file that lists all of the embedded python modules, use static object construction to put those objects onto a list. Do something similar for embedded swig (C++) code.
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21-Jul-2010 |
Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org> |
python: Add mechanism to override code compiled into the exectuable If the user sets the environment variable M5_OVERRIDE_PY_SOURCE to True, then imports that would normally find python code compiled into the executable will instead first check in the absolute location where the code was found during the build of the executable. This only works for files in the src (or extras) directories, not automatically generated files.
This is a developer feature!
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03-Aug-2008 |
Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org> |
libm5: Create a libm5 static library for embedding m5.
This should allow m5 to be more easily embedded into other simulators. The m5 binary adds a simple main function which then calls into the m5 libarary to start the simulation. In order to make this work correctly, it was necessary embed python code directly into the library instead of the zipfile hack. This is because you can't just append the zipfile to the end of a library the way you can a binary. As a result, Python files that are part of the m5 simulator are now compile, marshalled, compressed, and then inserted into the library's data section with a certain symbol name. Additionally, a new Importer was needed to allow python to get at the embedded python code.
Small additional changes include: - Get rid of the PYTHONHOME stuff since I don't think anyone ever used it, and it just confuses things. Easy enough to add back if I'm wrong. - Create a few new functions that are key to initializing and running the simulator: initSignals, initM5Python, m5Main.
The original code for creating libm5 was inspired by a patch Michael Adler, though the code here was done by me.
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