Virtual Memory is now called IML and separate

The virtual memory layer of GPI-Space has been factored out to become a separate component, the “Independent Memory Layer”, short IML. It is still shipped with GPI-Space and the APIs are backwards compatible.

GPI-Space has learned to use an externally started IML rather than bootstrapping its own. This allows applications to keep an IML alive across runs to cache data, or to allow preparing and extracting data independent of GPI-Space. The socket of an external IML can be specified with the --remote-iml-vmem-socket option, which needs to point to the IML server on all hosts used by the runtime system.

The independent API is available in include/iml/. It can be used independently from GPI-Space by using find_package (IML).

CMake “config” file now provided

GPI-Space now provides a CMake package config file to replace FindGPISpace.cmake scripts. find_package (GPISpace) will now find GPI-Space by searching GPISpace_ROOT and GPISpace_DIR or CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH (see documentation of CMake’s find_package for details).

Applications using beautify_find_gpispace.cmake will need to update that script and remove their copy of FindGPISpace.cmake. The script was updated to be backwards compatible with the existing arguments.

Applications using find_package (GPISpace) need to change how the version requirement is specified as the standard CMake syntax is now used:

# old
find_package (GPISpace REQUIRED COMPONENTS VERSION=20.12)
# new
find_package (GPISpace 21.03 EXACT REQUIRED)

The argument REVISION has been removed. Its usage will cause an error instead. beautify_find_gpispace handling of VERSION has been fixed.

The old FindGPISpace.cmake script is no longer supported and was removed from the repository.

Expression plugins: Nest exceptions, print context

When a plugin callback throws an exception, then the exception is wrapped by an runtime_error that adds the evaluation context to the error message.

That frees clients from adding the context and helps developers to debug plugins.

Fixes

  • Information about dependencies found are no longer hidden when configuring.
  • The XSD and RNC schemas now specify the attribute allow-empty-ranges at the correct location.
  • pnetc now honors <memory-buffer read_only="false">, rather than treating presence of the attribute as true.
  • Petri-net modules no longer link against drts-context if pass_context="false".
  • Fix error handling in client when receiving data in case of disconnection.
  • Fixed races between event handlers and layer callbacks in agent that might cause Error: reason := receiving response failed: asio. misc:2 code := 2 in rare cases.

Allow multiple specializations of templates with module calls

It is now possible to use multiple specializations of templates that contain module calls. In order to get unique wrappers, the type map is mangled into the function name, e.g. if a template with the type parameter T is specialized by int the function name is extended by _T_int.

Respect the BUILD_TESTING option

Allow the users to enable/disable building the tests by forcing the system to properly handle the CMake BUILD_TESTING option.

Miscellaneous

  • Various improvements have been made to the README document to ease installation process of dependencies and GPI-Space and testing a fresh installation.
  • The upper Boost version requirement of 1.63.0 is now enforced when configuring.
  • The XSD and RNC schemas now document defaults.