Previously both ':' and ';' were recognised as path separators on all
platforms, but ':' can't be used in Windows. So now we only recognise
';' when running in Windows and ':' when running in any other OS.
__CYGWIN32__ is not defined when building with the 64-bit Cygwin
toolchain. According to the Cygwin FAQ, __CYGWIN__ has been defined
since 1998, so this should still work for users on 32-bit systems.
The old scheme of linking the VPI modules with the vvp exports meant they
did not work when loaded by the compiler. Instead, let each client create
a jump table for the VPI routines and pass that to each VPI module as it
is loaded.
In ivl_alloc.h we redefine malloc(), realloc() and calloc() to have
standard error checking. We don't want to do this for anything that
comes from the standard headers. This specifically doesn't work if
a C++ header files does std::malloc, etc.
Also change to -W instead of -Wextra since that is more portable. I
plan to add a check from -Wextra and use it when available since it
is more descriptive.
The functions (malloc, free, etc.) that used to be provided in
malloc.h are now provided in cstdlib for C++ files and stdlib.h for
C files. Since we require a C99 compliant compiler it makes sense
that malloc.h is no longer needed.
This patch also modifies all the C++ files to use the <c...>
version of the standard C header files (e.g. <cstdlib> vs
<stdlib.h>). Some of the files used the C++ version and others did
not. There are still a few other header changes that could be done,
but this takes care of much of it.
When using MinGW, routines registered via atexit() inside a
DLL are only called when the DLL is detached. If not detached
manually, DLLs are automatically detached *after* all remaining
open files are closed. This meant that by the time the LXT or
LXT2 close_dumpfile routine was called, the dump file handle
was no longer valid, so any remaining output was lost. This
patch fixes the problem by manually detaching the VPI modules.
This patch adds code to free most of the memory when vvp
finishes. It also adds valgrind hooks to manage the various
memory pools. The functionality is enabled by passing
--with-valgrind to configure. It requires that the
valgrind/memcheck.h header from a recent version of
valgrind be available. It check for the existence of this
file, but not that it is new enough (version 3.1.3 is known
to not work and version 3.4.0 is known to work).
You can still use valgrind when this option is not given,
but you will have memory that is not released and the
memory pools show as a single block.
With this vvp is 100% clean for many of the tests in the
test suite. There are still a few things that need to be
cleaned up, but it should be much easier to find any real
leaks now.
Enabling this causes a negligible increase in run time and
memory. The memory could be a problem for very large
simulations. The increase in run time is only noticeable on
very short simulations where it should not matter.
MinGW uses the GetProcAddress() function to find the address of
the vlog_startup_routines() procedure in a .vpi file. This routine
requires that the leading underscore be omitted from the name even
though the underlying routine really has one.
Cary R
Martin Whitaker
Stephen Williams
Alex Forencich
Arun Persaud
Larry Doolittle
steve