1) Added a "*showmem" "wizard" command to get a dump of all memory
being used by tiles in the database.
2) Made a slight correction to the way magic detects exact overlap
of instances of the same cell. This probably does not make any
actual difference in practice.
3) Corrected an uninitialized variable in dbReComputeBboxFunc().
4) Changes DBSrCellPlaneArea() to use a static BPEnum variable, so
that it does not waste time allocating and freeing memory for
the same thing over and over again.
5) Corrected a memory leak in the tech file "extract" section that
loses memory every time the extraction style is changed.
6) Corrected the tile join routines to fix a bad memory leak in the
tile allocation and recovery---a fix which was mentioned in issue
#414 but which had not yet been implemented. This has now been
tested and confirmed to work.
command, but with some critical differences, since the "crash"
command is designed for crash backups. "crash" will save in a
temp file and removes the file after a successful recovery.
"archive" can be used at any time to make a complete snapshot of
a layout in a single file, or to read back that snapshot.
There is a "writeall" option that will make a snapshot including
layout of all read-only (PDK) cells.
recognized as a valid command when file locking has been disabled as
a compile-time option. The command then generates an error on
"locking enable" but simply ignores the command "locking disable".
whenever a process writes a cell to disk, it immediately releases the
file lock it had on that cell, which is clearly not the intent of file
locking. Fixed this issue. On a related topic, revised the "cellname
writeable" command so that it can make a cell editable even if the cell
has an advisory lock and cannot be made writeable. Perhaps there should
be a clearer distinction here between "writeable" and "editable". Also:
Reconsidered the previous commit, which removed the "--disable-locking"
from the configuration options. Because some operating systems may not
implement fnctl()-based file locking (Cygwin, for one, apparently doesn't),
it is still useful to be able to completely remove the function, in case
the operating system will fail to recognize the fnctl() values in the
code. Now, file locking behavior can be permanently removed through the
configuration option, or temporarily disabled from the command line.
into subcells in a hierarchy. The intent is to use this in
conjunction with the "select intersect" command option added
yesterday to add deep nwell into the cells containing the devices
that need it.
magic database derived layout of a cell that declares GDS_FILE
but for which the GDS file referenced cannot be found or read.
This will produce an incomplete GDS file instead of an apparently
good and complete GDS file that actually contains bad data. Also:
Added new command "random" that allows a random seed to be set,
for use with the GDS output when writing a full dump of a GDS
file. Otherwise, the output prefixes are always the same, which
defeats the purpose of adding the random prefix.
Instead of a 6-character suffix generated randomly, the 6-character
suffix is generated by a hash algorithm from the device parameters.
If the cell parameters are changed, then the cell itself changes.
If the instance name was default (derived from the cell name) then
the instance name changes accordingly. The result is that there
cannot be two (auto-)generated cells with the same parameters but
with different cell names.
R. Timothy Edwards
Darryl L. Miles