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The create() method on Params structs usually instantiate SimObjects using a constructor which takes the Params struct as a parameter somehow. There has been a lot of needless variation in how that was done, making it annoying to pass Params down to base classes. Some of the different forms were: const Params & Params & Params * const Params * Params const* This change goes through and fixes up every constructor and every create() method to use the const Params & form. We use a reference because the Params struct should never be null. We use const because neither the create method nor the consuming object should modify the record of the parameters as they came in from the config. That would make consuming them not idempotent, and make it impossible to tell what the actual simulation configuration was since it would change from any user visible form (config script, config.ini, dot pdf output). Change-Id: I77453cba52fdcfd5f4eec92dfb0bddb5a9945f31 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/35938 Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This is the gem5 simulator. The main website can be found at http://www.gem5.org A good starting point is http://www.gem5.org/about, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation and http://www.gem5.org/documentation/learning_gem5/introduction. To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang, Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, SWIG, zlib, m4, and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building for more details concerning the minimum versions of the aforementioned tools. Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons build/<ARCH>/gem5.opt' where ARCH is one of ARM, NULL, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, or X86. This will build an optimized version of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) for the the specified architecture. See http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building for more details and options. The basic source release includes these subdirectories: - configs: example simulation configuration scripts - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5 - src: source code of the gem5 simulator - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems - tests: regression tests - util: useful utility programs and files To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled system firmware (console and PALcode for Alpha), kernel binaries and one or more disk images. If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.