API-Changes
===========
This file summarizes the changes in OMNeT++/OMNEST across releases that affect
backwards compatibility, to help you port models to more recent versions
of the simulation framework.
This file only describes changes that affect compiling and running models;
for other changes or new features see WHATSNEW, and per source directory
ChangeLog files.
Legend:
(+) new feature
(!!!) incompatible change (old code will not compile or work as previously)
(!) incompatible but minor change (change on a rarely used feature)
(-) method/class became deprecated (possibly with a better replacement
feature becoming available), or a method/class was renamed and a
corresponding compatibility #define was added ('#define oldname
newname')
(x) removed a deprecated method, class or compatibility #define
(i) information
OMNeT++ 4.5
~~~~~~~~~~~
(+) Added cMessagePrinter and the Register_MessagePrinter() macro.
(+) Simple module classes can be used for compound modules (with @class),
and doing so will make the module behave as a normal simple module
would.
(!) Compound modules are now represented with cModule, and the (almost
empty) cCompoundModule class was removed. This change was made
to allow simple module classes to be used for compound modules.
OMNeT++ 4.4
~~~~~~~~~~~
(!) cIListener: added receiveSignal() overload for the bool type. Most code
containing listeners don't have to be changed as they subclass from
cListener, a do-nothing listener implementation.
(!) cComponent: added emit(simsignal_t, const cObject*). This was necessary
because otherwise the compiler silently casts 'const cObject *' pointers
to long (!) and calls that emit(). The new method delegates to the
const-less version. It would have been cleaner to do it the other way
round (let the non-const version delegate to the const version);
for that, however, existing listeners would have had to be changed to
accept const pointer, a painful change.
(!) cITimestampedValue::Type replaced by SimsignalType
(+) cObjectFactory: added isInstance() method
(+) Added Register_Abstract_Class() macro
(+) cNEDValue: added two static parseQuantity() functions
(+) cEnvir: added attachDebugger() method
(+) cEnvir: added addResultRecorders() method that allows for setting up
declarative statistics collection on dynamically created signals
(see manual for details)
(!) cResultRecorder: init() method signature change
(!) In embedding uses, ExecuteOnStartup::executeAll() should be replaced
by CodeFragments::executeAll(CodeFragments::STARTUP), and the cleanup
code at the end of main() should be replaced by CodeFragments::
executeAll(CodeFragments::SHUTDOWN).
OMNeT++ 4.3
~~~~~~~~~~~
(+) Signals implementation now allows static initialization of simsignal_t
variables, i.e. the signal registration table is no longer cleared
between simulation runs.
(+) cTopology: added calculateWeightedSingleShortestPathsTo()
(+) cPacket: added hasEncapsulatedPacket()
(+) cPatternMatcher, cMatchExpression: new utility classes
(+) cGate: added getBaseId()
(+) SimTime: added SimTime(int64 value, int base10exponent) constructor
to allow specifying precise constants
(+) SimTime: added functions for getting the value out in various time
units (sec, msec, etc): inUnit(), trunc(), remainderForUnit(), split()
OMNeT++ 4.2
~~~~~~~~~~~
(+) Users can now extend @statistic with new result filters and result
recorders. See the cResultFilter, cNumericResultFilter,
cObjectResultFilter, cResultRecorder, and cNumericResultRecorder
classes, and the Register_ResultFilter() and Register_ResultRecorder()
macros.
(!) The Define_Function() macros have been renamed to Define_NED_Math_-
Function(). For backwards compatibility, the old macro definitions
remain, but issue a deprecation warning. The underlying registration
class cMathFunction was also renamed to cNEDMathFunction.
Note that the recommended way of defining new NED functions is now
the Define_NED_Function() macro, which provides more functionality.
(!) cDynamicExpression::Value, used by user-defined NED functions (see
Define_NED_Function() macro), has been factored out to a cNEDValue
class, and its external interface has changed. Data members are no
longer public, they can be manipulated via various methods.
Existing user-defined NED functions will need to be revised; you can
find code examples in src/sim/nedfunctions.cc.
(+) cPar: setExpression() now accepts an evaluationcontext parameter;
new methods: getEvaluationContext(), setEvaluationContext()
(!) The Register_PerObjectConfigOption() and Register_PerObjectConfigOptionU()
macros now take one more argument (inserted into the 3rd place), the
object kind.
(!) cRegistrationList::get() was renamed to find(), for consistency with
similarly named methods in other classes
(!) Removed #include <winsock.h> from <platdep/timeutil.h>; the reason
is that it conflicted with lwIP code recently integrated into INET.
<platdep/sockets.h> still includes <winsock.h>, but now
<platdep/sockets.h> MUST precede <omnetpp.h> in all source files.
(i) cChannel::MessageSentSignalValue: getMessage() return type fixed
(changed from cObject to cMessage)
(+) New cEnvir methods: getParsedXMLString(), forgetParsedXMLString(),
flushXMLParsedContentCache().
OMNeT++ 4.1
~~~~~~~~~~~
(+) Introduced the signals mechanism; see the new "Signals" section
in the Manual. Implementation comprises new classes cIListener and
cListener; new cComponent methods registerSignal(), getSignalName(),
emit(), mayHaveListeners(), hasListeners(), subscribe(), unsubscribe(),
isSubscribed(), getLocalListenedSignals(), getLocalSignalListeners();
constants PRE_MODEL_CHANGE and POST_MODEL_CHANGE; new class
cModelChangeNotification and subclasses. Signal-based result recording
uses @statistic properties in NED files.
(!!!) cGate: removed isBusy() and getTransmissionFinishTime(), as they
were confusing (they ignored any propagation delay up to the
transmission channel); they had bad performance characteristics
(they linerarly searched for the transmission channel every time);
and they threw an error if the path didn't contain a transmission
channel at all.
(!!!) cChannel: change in the programming model. The old deliver() method's
semantics has changed, the method was renamed to processMessage()
and its and argument list changed. The reason is to decrease the
amount of code that needs to be written when implementing a new
channel class, and to improve reusability via subclassing.
See documentation in the code.
(+) cChannel: added forceTransmissionFinishTime(simtime t), so that
channels can support aborted transmissions (needed e.g. for Ethernet).
(+) cChannel: added getNominalDatarate(). This is often needed in models,
for example in INET to fill in the interface entry.
(+) cGate: added utility functions findTransmissionChannel(),
getIncomingTransmissionChannel(), findIncomingTransmissionChannel().
(+) cComponent: added isChannel() utility method (it already had an
isModule() method)
(!) cComponent: handleParameterChange() is now called for each component
with parameterName=NULL after the last stage of the initialization
phase. This allows the components to refresh their cached parameter
values if some parameters were changed during the initialization phase.
This is necessary because handleParameterChange() is not called during
the component's initialization phase.
(!) cPar: added a note to the xmlValue() method that the lifetime of
the returned objects may be limited. Modules should NOT hang on to
cXMLElement pointers between events!
(+) cGate: added getNameSuffix() method.
(+) cSimulation: added getSimulationStage()
(+) cException: exception object now stores simulation stage, event
number and simulation time as well; also added getFormattedMessage()
method that puts together the complete error message from its pieces.
(+) cMessage, cPacket: several methods were made virtual, most notably
encapsulate() and decapsulate(), to allow customizing the behavior
in subclasses
(!) cPacket: getEncapsulatedMsg() was renamed to getEncapsulatedPacket()
to better describe its function. The old method was left there for
backward compatibility; it is deprecated and delegates to the new
method.
(+) Enter_Method_Silent() now may take arguments (printf-like arg list).
Also, it now logs the call into the eventlog file (and the resulting
string (if given) is recorded as the method name).
(+) cModule::addGate() now returns the gate pointer whenever a single gate
is created (for inout gates [~gate pair] and vectors it returns NULL)
(+) cModuleType: added isSimple() method
(+) New NED function: expand(). It substitutes ${} config variables
into a string. Possible use: in NED parameters like the following:
string fname = default(expand("${resultdir}/${configname}-${runnumber}.txt"));
(+) Created cHistogram class by merging cDoubleHistogram and cLongHistogram
functionality.
(i) When recording a histogram object into the scalars file (see
cComponent::recordStatistic(), cStatistics::record(), etc.),
its transform() method gets invoked to force it set up the histogram
cells, provided it was not already invoked.
(!) cVarHistogram: createEquiProbableCells() renamed to createEquiprobable-
Cells() (lowercase "p")
(+) cOutVector: added setRecordDuringWarmupPeriod() and getRecordDuring-
WarmupPeriod() methods.
(+) cArray: added setCapacity(), getCapacity(). setCapacity() can be used
to trim back the internally allocated array after a large number of
items have been removed from it.
(!) cProperty: getNumValues() to return 0 (instead of thowing an error)
when the property does not contain the given property key.
(+) cClassDescriptor: added findField() method
(+) cConfiguration: substituteVariables() made public
(+) cEnvir: added forgetXMLDocument(filename) and flushXMLDocumentCache()
(see bug #131)
(!) cClassFactory was renamed to cObjectFactory
(+) cStringTokenizer: added copy constructor and assignment operator
(i) Corrected the definition of NULL according to C++ rules
(i) FES performance improvement: cMessageHeap was changed to more
efficiently handle the insertion and removal of events scheduled
for the current simulation time. Such events are actually quite common
due to plain (zero delay, zero datarate) connections between modules.
For more info, see src/sim/ChangeLog.
(i) Performance improvement: cMessage::getArrivalTime() was consuming
10-20% of CPU time in many configurations, see bug #22,
http://dev.omnetpp.org/bugs/view.php?id=22.
Solution: change return type of getArrivalTime() and other methods
from simtime_t to simtime_t_retval (which is a new typedef that maps to
const simtime_t&). Reason: on some platforms and configurations, esp.
in debug builds, returning a const reference is more efficient than
returning by value (even though SimTime is only 64 bits and would fit
in register(s)).
On 64-bit architectures and optimized builds (-O2/-O3) this change
may actually decrease performance; this is to be investigated, and
simtime_t_retval conditionally defined as plain simtime_t.
OMNeT++ 4.0
~~~~~~~~~~~
(!!!) Lots of breaking changes. We opted for doing all necessary changes
at once (3.3 -> 4.0) instead of scattering them over multiple
releases after 4.0. This way only one porting is needed, and API can
be kept more stable over the coming releases. If you need to convert
models from 3.x to 4.0, see the Migration Guide first!
General:
- "get" verb added to the names of nearly all getter methods; notable
exceptions are STL-like names like size(), empty(), length(),
end(), str(), c_str(); par() and gate() methods of cModule;
boolValue(), longValue(), stringValue() etc methods of cPar
(already consistent with Java); info(), detailedInfo();
intRand(), dblRand() and other cRNG methods.
Methods returning bools begin with "is", "has", "contains" or a
similar verb. [Change decided by voting on the mailing list]
- <omnetpp.h> now provides the C99 integer types and limit macros,
even on systems that don't have <stdint.h> (for example, MSVC does
not have it). This includes int8_t, uint8_t,..int64_t, uint64_t types;
INT8_MAX, UINT64_MAX, etc. In addition, it also provides shorter names
(int8, uint8,...); they are provided as macros, so if they collide
with definitions in some external code, they can be undefined after
including <omnetpp.h>.
cObject, cPolymorphic:
- cObject renamed to cOwnedObject, cPolymorphic renamed to cObject
- cNamedObject introduced between cObject and cOwnedObject
- note: cArray, cQueue still handle cObject (old cPolymorphic),
that is, they handle non-owned objects as well
- removed writeContents() altogether
- covariant return types for dup(): the return type of X::dup() is
no longer cPolymorphic* or cObject* but X*. This was made possible
by dropping support for Visual C++ 6.0. The change might cause
incompatibility with customized message classes (.msg file with
customize=true). If the hand-coded class still contains
cPolymorphic* return type not the real class type, that results
in compiler errors like this:
../Transport\TCP\TCPSegment.h(68) : error C2555: 'TCPSegment::dup':
overriding virtual function return type differs and is not covariant
from 'TCPSegment_Base::dup'
The fix: change dup()'s return type to the real class.
Exception handling:
- now all our exceptions subclass from std::exception (cException also
extends std::exception). Hint: catch std::exception if you don't need
the exception to be of a specific type
- exceptions are now thrown by value not by pointer (all "throw new"
in the code must be replaced with "throw")
Simulation time:
- simtime_t is now not double but class SimTime (64-bit fixed point number)
- simtime exponent is base 10, and set globally
- there is no implicit conversion from SimTime to double. However,
to alleviate this pain, at many places overloaded functions have
been added that take simtime_t.
- simtimeToStr(), strToSimtime() are no longer (use SimTime methods
instead, or the compatibility macros described below!)
- simTime() was moved out of the cSimpleModule class: it became a global
function which delegates to simulation.getSimTime()
Simtime compatibility mode:
- if needed, the simkernel can be compiled with simtime_t = double.
For that, compile everything with USE_DOUBLE_SIMTIME defined
(add -DUSE_DOUBLE_SIMTIME to CFLAGS). If you want to ensure that
models compile with both int64-based and double simtime_t, use
the following macros to convert simtime_t from/to double and string:
SIMTIME_STR(t), SIMTIME_DBL(t), STR_SIMTIME(s), SIMTIME_TTOA(buf,t).
MAXTIME is also defined correctly for both simtime types.
Converting source code to the new int64-based simtime_t:
- for the large part, code is supposed to compile without much change
- most errors come from using "double" variables which should really be
"simtime_t". E.g. if you see variables like double timeout, double
interval, double age, etc, they should all be changed to simtime_t.
This applies to message fields within .msg files as well: some of
the "double" ones may need to be changed to "simtime_t".
- when conversion to double is still needed, use SIMTIME_DBL(t) or t.dbl().
- ev << simtimeToStr(t) is to be changed to: ev << t;
Gate handling:
- introduced inout gates, which resulted in some changes listed below
- with inout gates, gate("gatename") does not work, use gate("gatename$i")
or gate("gatename$o") instead
- if a gate vector is zero size, there's no cGate object for it at all.
But hasGate(), gateType(), isGateVector(), gateSize() do work.
- for gate direction, use the new cGate::Type enum instead of the
'I' and 'O' characters (though characters continue to work)
- setGateSize() return type changed from int to void (when resizing an
inout gate, it would have to return the two ids)
- addGate() return type changed to void (when an inout gate is created,
it would have to return two cGate* pointers)
- gate("xxx") now throws error if gate is not found, instead of returning NULL
- gate("xxx") now won't return gate "xxx[0]"
- gate("out")->size() does not work, because gate("out") throws an error
("not found") if "out" is a vector gate; gate("out",0)->size() will work,
but only if out[] is of nonzero size (otherwise you'll get the "gate out[0]
not found" error). Best is to use gateSize("out"), a cModule member function.
- removed setTo(), setFrom() methods; use connectTo() instead!
- isRouteOK() renamed to isPathOK()
- fromGate()/toGate() renamed to getPreviousGate()/getNextGate()
- sourceGate()/destinationGate() renamed to getPathStartGate()/getPathEndGate()
- dynamic gate creating changed:
- removed cGate::setOwnerModule() and setIndex()
- now there is addGate() and setGateSize()
- to help connecting gate vectors, two utility methods were added:
- getOrCreateFirstUnconnectedGate()
- getOrCreateFirstUnconnectedGatePair()
- added setDeliverOnReceptionStart() flag, which may be invoked only on
simple module input gates. It defines whether a packet that travelled
through a channel with datarate (i.e. has nonzero duration) is
delivered to the module at the time reception begins, or when
reception ends. (In OMNeT++ 3.x, only the latter option was
available).
- added getTransmissionChannel() which returns *the* transmission
channel in the path
- transmissionFinishes() renamed to getTransmissionFinishTime()
- gates that have the @loose or @directIn property set in the NED file
may remain unconnected (ie no error will be raised, even if
"allowunconnected" is not specified in the connections section)
Channels:
- channels became first-class citizens: they have a common base class
(cComponent) with cModule, they participate in the initialize()/
finish() protocol, and so on.
- cBasicChannel renamed to cDatarateChannel
- added calculateDuration(cMessage *msg) method into channels
- removed delay(), setDelay(), error(), setError(), dataRate(),
setDataRate() methods from cGate: please use methods from the gate's
channel instead:
check_and_cast<cDatarateChannel *>(gate->channel())->setDelay(0.1);
or use generic component parameter access instead:
gate->channel()->par("delay")=0.1.
- "error" parameter renamed to "ber" (bit error rate or BER,
cDatarateChannel methods getBitErrorRate/setBitErrorRate)
- added "per" parameter (packet error rate or PER, cDatarateChannel
methods getPacketErrorRate/setPacketErrorRate)
- added cIdealChannel which lets messages through without any change
and without any delay.
- added cDelayChannel
- getFromGate() renamed to getSourceGate()
- breaking change in cDatarateChannel behaviour: implicit queueing is
no longer supported: sending on a busy gate (that is, when simTime() <
gate->transmissionFinishTime()) results in an error. Thus, using a
special transmitter module (with an internal queue) is now sort of
mandatory when channels with data rate are in use.
- setting channel parameters from the ini file: add
<fromgate-fullpath>.channel.<paramname> = <value>, e.g.:
**.a.out.channel.delay = 10ms
- now a connection path may only contain one cDatarateChannel (more
precisely, only one channel whose isTransmissionChannel() method
returns true)
- likewise, a sendDirect() call with nonzero duration may only be sent
onto a gate whose connection path does NOT contain any cDatarateChannel
(or channel whose isTransmissionChannel() method returns true)
Dynamic module/channel creation:
- finalizeParameters() must be called (for channels, this reads input
params from omnetpp.ini; for modules, also creates gates [since gate
vector sizes may depend on parameter values])
- global connect() function removed (use cGate::connectTo() instead)
cQueue:
- head()/tail() removed, back()/front() added (insert at back, pop
from front!); because of head/tail change, iterator direction and
meaning of insertBefore/insertAfter has changed
- boolean flag to specify ascending/descending order removed (because
the earlier default ascending=false was inconvenient, and silently
changing the default is not a good idea)
- compat.h typedef cQueueIterator removed, as iterator semantic was
changed in a non-compatible way anyway
- new class: cPacketQueue
cArray:
- items() became size()
cBag class removed
Display strings:
- connection display string is now stored in the channel, not the source gate
- setDisplayString() methods removed
- displayString() delegates to channel()->displayString(); if there's
no channel, it creates a cIdealChannel
- module and channel display string access functions are now in the
common base class, cComponent
- display string objects are now only created (from @display) when
first accessed
cDisplayString:
- parse() no longer interprets literal "\t", "\n" escape sequences;
it is the job of the NED or C++ compiler to convert those to 0x09,
0x0a etc. "\;", "\=", "\," can still be used to escape those special
characters, but they have to be entered into the NED or C++ source
with *double* backslashes like "t=hello\\,world" (one will be eaten
by the NED/C++ compiler, the other by the display string parser).
- parse() now throws an error if the display string has invalid syntax.
It used to return a boolean which practically no one checked.
- getString() was renamed to str()
Introduced cComponent, a common base class for cModule and cChannel
- new methods to mention: isModule(), nedTypeName(), etc
- final garbage object collection can be turned on per module, by
invoking setPerformFinalGC(true)
cModule:
- removed backgroundDisplayString()/setBackgroundDisplayString() and
its compat #defines displayStringAsParent()/setDisplayStringAsParent()
- removed deprecated methods phase(), setPhase()
- added isPlaceholder() to cModule
- cPlaceHolderModule: renamed to cPlaceholderModule (lowercase h)
- gate handling reorganized, so that gate IDs are stable (do not change
when the gate vector gets resized). Gate IDs are now interpreted as a
bitfield, so they cannot be used for iterating over all gates of a
module; cModule::GateIterator was introduced for this purpose.
- gates() removed, as gate IDs are no longer integers in the 0..gates()-1
interval (use the new cModule::GateIterator for enumerating the gates).
- added gateNames() method
- className() for cModule (or cComponent in general) no longer lies
the NED type name, but returns the real C++ class name
- deprecated cSubmodIterator -- use cModule::SubmoduleIterator instead!
- added cModule::ChannelIterator
cModuleType:
- cModuleType::buildInside(mod) became protected (was deprecated anyway)
cSimpleModule:
- cSimpleModule::end() -- removed, as there was little value in it.
To terminate an activity() module, simply return from the activity()
method, or call the new halt() method (the latter preserves local
variables for inspection)
- added cSimpleModule::halt()
- cSimpleModule::deleteModule() -- in handleMessage()-based modules,
this no longer throws exception. That is, execution will continue
normally after the deleteModule() call.
- removed cSimpleModule::moduleState()
- removed: pause(), backtomod, pause_in_sendmsg (they were obsolete)
- removed: breakpoint(), and its callback method in cEnvir, in Tkenv, etc..
- sendDirect(): added overloaded methods that accept transmissionDelay
- cancelEvent() now only allows cancelling self-messages
cMessage changes:
- the length, bit error flag and encapsulated message cMessage fields
got factored out from cMessage, into the cPacket class (which extends
cMessage). All network packets (frames, datagrams, etc) are now
supposed to be subclassed from cPacket, not directly cMessage.
To port simulations into 4.0, in message descriptions (.msg files)
change relevant "message" keywords to "packet" (this will cause
the base class to be cPacket), and use casts to convert cMessage* to
cPacket* where needed: cPacket *pkt = check_and_cast<cPacket *>(msg).
We hope that on the long run this change will result in clearer code
in simulation models. To help porting, it is possible to compile
everything in a "backward compatibility mode" when cPacket is
just an alias to cMessage, and cMessage contains all fields.
For that, compile everything having WITHOUT_CPACKET defined
(add -DWITHOUT_CPACKET to CFLAGS).
- the C++ type for message kind and priority changed from "int" to
"short", and priority was renamed to scheduling priority (methods
setSchedulingPriority/getSchedulingPriority)
- added some extra fields required by sequence chart drawing: cause event
number, message id, message tree id, etc.
- removed two static methods of limited usefulness: cmpbydelivtime(),
cmpbypriority().
cPacket:
- existing obsolete fields (protocol and pdu codes) were removed
- the length, bit error flag and encapsulated message fields were moved
from cMessage into cPacket
- methods associated with "length" got renamed, new method names are:
getBitLength(), setBitLength(), addBitLength()
- length changed from long to int64 (reason: message length was limited
to 2 gigabits=256 megabytes on 32-bit architectures).
Affected functions:
setLength() / setByteLength() / addLength() / addByteLength()
length() / byteLength()
- added getDuration() and isReceptionStart() methods, which are related
to the last send over a channel with datarate, and to cGate's
deliverOnReceptionStart flag.
cMessageHeap:
- renamed getFirst() to removeFirst(), and get(cMessage*) to remove(cMessage*)
Message parameters:
- deprecated; type changed: cMsgPar instead of cPar
- cMsgPar is the same as the old cPar, but features which are not
needed for message parameter objects have been removed:
- removed support for interactively prompting the user for a value:
input flag, prompt, read() method
- removed indirection (redirection) support
- removed support for storing expressions
Module parameters (cPar):
- implementation changed: now cPar is only a thin wrapper around an
object that actually holds the value (cParImpl and subclasses);
typically several cPars will share the same cParImpl object
- setFromText() renamed to parse()
- getAsText() renamed to str()
- added method stdstringValue() and operator std::string: they must be
used with "volatile string" parameters
cOutVector:
- removed half-hearted tuple=2 support from cOutVector and underlying
infrastructure
- added methods for metadata annotation: setEnum(), setUnit(), setType(),
setInterpolationMode(), setMin(), setMax()
recordScalar() methods (cSimpleModule, cStatistic):
- added optional "const char *unit" argument to all respective methods
- cStatistic::recordScalar() renamed and split to record(), recordAs()
and recordWithUnit()
- cSimpleModule::recordScalar() methods moved to cComponent
- see also: **.param-record-as-scalar = true
Statistics classes:
- cStatistic: renamed samples() to count(). This affects cStdDev,
cWeightedStdDev and basically all statistics classes (they all
inherit from cStatistic)
- cWeightedStdDev: implemented stddev(); also fixed min() and max()
(they bogusly returned min/max of the weight*value products).
For stddev(), code is based on the patch from Peter Woitek.
- cStatistic: added 3 new functions, to access values underlying weighted
statistics: weightedSum(), sqrSumWeights(), weightedSqrSum()
- cStatistic: added isWeighted()
- cStatistic: added merge(cStatistic *) for aggregating statistics,
and implemented it in subclasses
- cDensityEstBase etc: transformed() renamed to isTransformed();
added setCellSize()
- cLongHistogram: revised the way histogram cells are set up. Now it
throws an error if all given constraints cannot be satisfied (so that
numCells*cellSize==rangeMax-rangeMin, all integers)
- cDensityEstBase: added cellInfo() method
cTopology changes:
- added extractFromNetwork(Predicate*), to support specifying conditions
in a type-safe way (without void* casts)
- extractByModuleType() not longer exists, use the new extractByNedTypeName()
method instead. Code like
topo.extractByModuleType("Host", "Router", NULL);
should be replaced by something like
topo.extractByModuleType(cStringTokenizer("Host Router").asVector());
- extractByParameter() arg list changed
cEnvir refactoring:
- motivation: break sim_std.dll dependence on envir.dll (mainly the
"ev" global variable)
- "ev" is no longer a variable, but a macro which expands to (*evPtr)
- cEnvir no longer subclasses from std::ostream, but instead redirects
all ev<< calls to an internal std::ostream instance
- cEnvir is no longer a concrete class, but an abstract base class with
lots of pure virtual methods
- removed puts(const char *) and gets(const char *)
- run numbers are now entirely the internal business of cEnvir;
runNumber was removed from the arg list of cEnvir callback functions.
- created cRunnableEnvir by factoring out run() method from cEnvir;
simulation user interfaces like Cmdenv or Tkenv subclass from
cRunnableEnvir, but other custom environment objects do not need to.
- added cNullEnvir, a default do-nothing implementation for cEnvir.
- several functions changed/renamed
cConfiguration:
- configuration handling rewritten, including cConfiguration; methods
completely changed
- cConfiguration split to a smaller cConfiguration plus a
cConfigurationEx class that adds the rest of the methods.
When the simulation kernel is used as library, only cConfiguration
needs to be implemented. cConfigurationEx is needed only when one
wants to plug in a different configuration object into the existing
Envir library, replacing SectionBasedConfig.
cSimulation:
- cSimulation now creates a cSequentialScheduler by default (no need
to do it manually); if it's not good, a different scheduler object
can be installed with the setScheduler() method.
- support for multiple instances of cSimulation. "simulation" is
no longer a global variable but a macro that expands to
cSimulation::getActiveSimulation(). Multiple cSimulation objects
may coexist; before invoking any function in the simulation library,
the correct cSimulation instance must be activated with
cSimulation::setActiveSimulation().
- multiple environment objects may coexist; in fact, there must be
exactly one associated with every cSimulation instance. "ev" now
maps to cSimulation::getActiveEnvir() which is short for
cSimulation::getActiveSimulation->getEnvir(). cSimulation::
setActiveSimulation() which activates a cSimulation instance
also activates its corresponding environment object.
- added cSimulation::loadNedText(), to facilitate creating
self-contained executables by embedding NED source as string
literals; also added cSimulation::clearLoadedNedFiles() function
- cSimulation::runNumber() got removed, as run numbers are now
entirely the internal matter of cEnvir.
- added method getHasher() to provide access to fingerprint
calculation for simulation models.
cCommBuffer:
- added pack/unpack methods for int64
- array packing methods now take const pointers
- doPacking()/doUnpacking() methods moved out of opp_msgc-generated
code into the simkernel headers (packing.h, included by omnetpp.h)
NED functions:
- introduced cNEDFunction and Define_NED_Function(), to make it possible
to write NED functions that take arguments of various types, not only
double
Misc changes:
- global findXXX(const char *name) functions turned into static
find(const char *name) functions of corresponding classes.
This applies to: findLink(), findFunction(), findEnum(),
findChannelType(), findNetworkType(), findModuleType()
- removed macros Min() and Max(), use std::min/std::max instead (<algorithm>);
also removed sgn()
- removed min(double,double), max(double,double), equal(double,double,double).
Use std::min and std::max instead.
- internal class cStructDescriptor refactored and renamed to cClassDescriptor
- several internal classes got removed/reorganized
- calls to myxxx() functions should be replaced with opp_xxx() in the code:
myrandomize(...)
genk_myrandomize(...)
mystrdup(...)
mystrcpy(...)
mystrcmp(...)
mystrmatch(...)
fastconcat(...)
indexedname(...)
- calls to genk_xxx() functions should be replaced with their "genk_"-less
counterparts (and the first arg dropped or moved to the last place):
genk_uniform(double gen_nr, double a, double b);
genk_intuniform(double gen_nr, double a, double b);
genk_exponential(double gen_nr, double p);
genk_normal(double gen_nr, double mean, double variance);
genk_truncnormal(double gen_nr, double mean, double variance);
- other:
correct(const char *) got renamed to opp_nulltoempty(const char *)
- compat.h: removed some very old compatibility #defines
- cStringTokenizer: added asIntVector() and asDoubleVector() methods
- cXMLElement, xmldoc(): mini-XPath expressions made more tolerant to whitespace
- added cHasher for calculation of simulation fingerprints
- snapshot file became XML
- marked deprecated methods with the new _OPPDEPRECATED macro, which
results in warnings during compilation of code that uses deprecated
API. _OPPDEPRECATED relies on gcc's __attribute__((__deprecated__))
and MSVC's __declspec(deprecated) features.
- several header files got renamed; this should not affect simulation
model code, as such code should #include <omnetpp.h> only.
Microsoft Visual C++:
- MSVC 6.0 support dropped (the compiler is over 10+ years old, and
does not support many modern C++ features like covariant return types)
- VC++ libs compiled with /MT (mulTithreaded C lib) with VC7.1 as well
OMNeT++ 3.3
~~~~~~~~~~~
no changes in public APIs
OMNeT++ 3.2 (Oct 2005)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(!) user-written module classes: expected signature of module constructors
simplified, from
cModule(const char *name, cModule *parent) and
cSimpleModule(const char *name, cModule *parent, unsigned stack)
to
cModule() and
cSimpleModule(unsigned stack=0)
The purpose is to ease writing constructors, e.g. for a handleMessage()
module class "PacketSink : public cSimpleModule", the constructor is
just
PacketSink() {}
instead of the former
PacketSink(const char *name, cModule *parent) :
cSimpleModule(name, parent, 0) {}
Backwards compatibility: module classes using Module_Class_Members()
(95%) are not affected. For module classes using hand-coded
constructors, adding NULL as a default value to the "name" and "parent"
ctor arguments will make the class work with both OMNeT++ 3.2 and
earlier versions:
PacketSink(const char *name=NULL, cModule *parent=NULL) :
cSimpleModule(name, parent, 0) {}
This affects very few modules, e.g. two in the current INET Framework
release.
Motivation: since cleanup-time garbage collection is off by default
in OMNeT++ 3.2, users are encouraged to write proper destructors.
However, destructors can only be written if constructors set pointer
members of the class to NULL. (This is currently customarily done
in the initialize() method; however, pointers must be initialized
to NULL even if initialize() doesn't get called due to a runtime error
earlier in another module's initialize(), otherwise the destructor will
crash.) The Module_Class_Members() macro (currently used in 95% of
the cases) defines an empty constructor, one cannot put statements
into it -- so one must use hand-coded constructors. The new signature
of constructors makes it possible to write much more compact code,
and will make it more comfortable for users.
(-) deprecated Module_Class_Members() -- see above
(+) cModule: modules can now get notified when a module parameter changes,
by redefining the new handleParameterChange(const char *parname)
virtual method of cModule.
(+) cSimpleModule: added method cancelAndDelete(cMessage *msg), for use
in simple module destructors.
(!) dup() method of cObject moved up to cPolymorphic, and the return type
changed to cPolymorphic. Once we drop MSVC 6.0 support, return types
can be changed to class itself, i.e. in class Foo it can be defined
as Foo *dup(). Unfortunately MSVC 6.0 doesn't support covariant return
types. Other compilers do.
(!) cMessage: implemented reference counting of encapsulated messages.
There is one implication: ONE MUST NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN A MESSAGE
ENCAPSULATED IN ANOTHER MESSAGE! That's because the encapsulated
message might be shared among several other messages.
(+) cMessage length can now be get/set in bytes as well, not only in bits:
added byteLength(), setByteLength(), addByteLength() convenience
functions. They just invoke the length(), setLength(), addLength()
methods, combined with a multiplication or division by 8.
(+) cMessage: added cModule *senderModule() method
(!) cMessage: if "vector" is a vector gate, msg->arrivedOn("vector")
now checks if msg arrived one of the vector's gates.
(+) cOutVector: added recordWithTimestamp() method, to make it possible
to record values into output vectors with a timestamp other than
simTime(). Increasing timestamp order is still enforced.
(+) cPar: added isConstant() member to cPar
(+) cPar: added default value to type parameter of setFromText()
(+) WATCH() implementation changed: now anything can be watched that has
operator<<. If it also has operator>> and it gets watched via
WATCH_RW(), it can also be modified from the GUI. Objects and pointers
to objects can also be watched with WATCH_OBJ() and WATCH_PTR().
(+) added macros to watch STL containers: WATCH_VECTOR(),
WATCH_PTRVECTOR(), WATCH_LIST(), WATCH_PTRLIST(), WATCH_SET(),
WATCH_PTRSET(), WATCH_MAP(), WATCH_PTRMAP().
(+) cDisplayString: added setTagArg() method for numeric (long) argument
as well. Just converts it to string and calls the other setTagArg().
(+) cXMLElement: added getFirstChildWithTagName(const char *tagname)
and getNextSiblingByTagName(const char *tagname) methods
(!) cXMLElement: several member functions made const
(+) added cStringTokenizer::hasMoreTokens() convenience method
(+) added simtimeToStrShort()
(!) moved packObject(), unpackObject(), checkFlag(), isNull() methods
(last one renamed to packFlag) into cCommBuffer
(!) cOutputVectorManager, cOutputScalarManager interfaces: added flush()
OMNeT++ 3.1 (Mar 2005)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Simulation library:
(+) added cStringTokenizer class
(+) extended cScheduler interface, added cRealTimeScheduler class
(!) cDisplayString's getTagArg() method now never return NULLs (returns
empty string "" instead)
(+) added getBaseDirectoryFor() and getLocation() to cConfiguration
(+) introduced cRuntimeError class, a subclass of cException
OMNeT++ 3.0 (Dec 2004)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Simulation library:
(x) removed setOwner() with no replacement. Use take() from within
objects, e.g. foo->setOwner(this) should be replaced with
this->take(foo) or just take(foo). Some existing simulation models
used setOwner() to "work around" (hack) message ownership
problems instead of tracking them down and fixing them properly --
the intent of removing setOwner() is to close this backdoor.
(x) removed putAsideQueue, receiveOn(), receiveNewOn(), receiveNew();
only receive() remained.
(!!!) wait() throws an exception if a message arrives during the hold
period. If messages should be allowed, use waitAndEnqueue().
(!!!) fullPath() return value changed from const char * to std::string.
If it occurs in a printf-like function as "%s" (sprintf,
ev.printf,...) it has to be changed to fullPath().c_str(),
otherwise printf may crash.
(!) signature of info(char buf, int buflen) changed to std::string info().
(!) cSimpleModule::recordScalar() for writing const char* data removed,
with no replacement.
(!) cSimpleModule::recordStats(cStatistic *x) was removed. Replacement
is x->recordScalar().
(+) added setControlInfo(), controlInfo(), removeControlInfo() methods
to cMessage. Control info is the preferred way of passing info
(additional to the packet itself) between protocol layers.
(!) cMessage default length changed from 1 to 0 (bits).
(!) NED: default gate vector size (e.g. if gatesizes is omitted) changed
from 1 to 0
(x) removed cGate::link()
(+) added cChannelType class and findChannelType() function
(+) added cGate::disconnect()
(!) cGate::connect() semantics slightly changed (see API documentation)
(+) added cModule::gateSize()
(+) added cModule::changeParentTo()
(+) added cSimulation::getUniqueNumber(). Useful in models for ID
generation, and (unlike incrementing global vars) it also works
with parallel execution
(-) cDisplayStringParser renamed to cDisplayString (compatibility
typedef exists)
(+) displayString() methods of cModule and cGate return reference to
internally stored cDisplayString objects which can now be manipu-
lated directly (no need for setDisplayString(const char *)).
(+) ev.isGUI() added. Returns true if simulation runs under Tkenv.
Display string updates and bubble() calls can be made conditional
on this.
(+) added method bool disabled() to cEnvir (to ev object); returns true
when ev<< output is disabled, such as in Express mode in Tkenv and
Cmdenv.
(+) cModule::bubble() added. It displays a transient "bubble" over the
module icon in Tkenv, does nothing in Cmdenv.
(-) discouraged use of classes cBag and cLinkedList. STL classes such
as std::vector, std::list or std::deque should be used instead.
(+) cStatistic::recordScalar() added
(+) New random number architecture: added cRNG interface and subclasses
cMersenneTwister and cLCG32; added cRNG *cEnvir::rng(k) and
cRNG *Module::rng(k)
(!) New random number architecture. Following symbols/functions fell
victim:
#define NUM_RANDOM_GENERATORS -- this is now in omnetpp.ini
#define INTRAND_MAX -- different for every RNG class;
cRNG::intRandMax() returns it
int testrand() -- see cRNG::selfTest()
long opp_nextrand(long& seed) -- no replacement
void opp_randomize() -- no replacement
long randseed() -- no replacement (Mersenne Twister state doesn't
fit in 32 bits!)
long randseed(long seed) -- no replacement (seeding from C++ not
supported)
long intrand() -- see cRNG::intRand()
void genk_opp_randomize(int gen_nr) -- no replacement (see above)
long genk_randseed(int gen_nr) -- no replacement (see above)
long genk_randseed(int gen_nr, long seed) -- no replacement (see above)
long genk_intrand(int gen_nr) -- see cRNG::intRand()
(+) added two utility functions to cTopology:
void extractByModuleType(const char **types)
void extractByModuleType(const std::vector<std::string> types)
(+) added class cXMLElement, to support NED's new XML parameter type
(+) added methods to cPar: setXMLValue(cXMLElement*),
cXMLElement *xmlValue(), op=(cXMLElement*), op cXMLElement*().
(+) added cConfiguration class, an abstract base class for configuration
managers (generalization of omnetpp.ini). cConfiguration makes it
possible to use different sources than omnetpp.ini, e.g. database
or XML.
(+) added method cConfiguration *config() to cEnvir (i.e. ev object)
(-) deprecated classes cBag and cLinkedList. STL classes such as
std::vector, std::list or std::deque are recommended instead.
OMNeT++ 2.3 (June 16, 2003)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Simulation library:
(-) deprecated cPacket. Please do not use it in new models.
Protocol should be represented in the message subclass (i.e. instances
of class IPv6Packet represent IPv6 packets, and/or in the message kind
value. PDU is usually represented as a field inside the message class
(a protocol header field). See rationale in User Manual.
(-) deprecated setOwner(). In constructors of new classes, use take(obj)
to take ownership of a member/contained object. Other than that,
there should be no reason to use setOwner()! setOwner() will probably
be removed as early as the next release of OMNeT++.
(+) message subclassing: generated message classes now accept message kind
in the constructor.
OMNeT++ 2.3b1 (Jan 13, 2003)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Simulation library:
(+) new distributions: continuous distributions gamma_d(), beta(),
erlang_k(), chi_square(), student_t(), cauchy(), triang(),
lognormal(), weibull(), pareto_shifted(); discrete distributions
bernoulli(), binomial(), geometric(), negbinomial(), poisson().
[contributed by Werner Sandmann]
(+) exceptions are used throughout the simulation library to signal
errors. You can also use try...catch in your code.
(+) RTTI (Run-time Type Information) is also turned on, so you can use
dynamic_cast in your code.
(+) added check_and_cast<T>(cObject *p) template function --
it can be used to assert that a pointer is of the given T type.
It does dynamic_cast<T> and throws exception if the result is NULL
(ie. pointer types are incompatible). Useful with message subclassing.
(!!!) MSVC compile flags change: exception handling and RTTI MUST be ON
from now. You must compile EVERY source file using /GR, otherwise
simulations will crash with RTTI exception!
(!) redefining className() in your classes is now not necessary (because
the simulation kernel can figure it out in cObject::className()).
(+) because of the introduction of C++ exception handling, methods like end(),
endSimulation() and deleteModule() as well as any runtime error cause
handleMessage() to exit immediately. (In earlier versions, handleMessage()
went through in any case.)
(-) deprecated genk_* functions. The RNG should be given as an extra
optional attribute of "genk"-less functions instead.
(-) rarely-used methods cSimpleModule::error(), opp_error() and opp_warning()
were deprecated; they will be removed at some point in the future.
(+) cWatch now supports 'bool'
(+) new method waitAndEnqueue() added to cSimpleModule -- this function
should be used instead of wait() in places where messages may arrive
at the module during the wait interval. (see next items)
(!) use wait() ONLY where you do NOT expect other messages to arrive
at the module, and receiveOn() only where you expect the mext message
to arrive on the specified gate. In a later release, wait() will
throw an error if a message arrives to it (or, with receiveOn(),
if the message arrives on the wrong gate), assuming it's an error
in the model logic. Where necessary, replace wait() with
waitAndEnqueue(). putAsideQueue will be removed some time
in the future (see next item).
(-) deprecated putAsideQueue. putAsideQueue has been only used
by the methods wait(), receiveOn() (and receiveNewOn()).
It stored "wrong" messages (that arrive during the wait period
or not on the specified gate). Because of putAsideQueue, the receive()
methods had to have 2 versions: receive..() and receiveNew..().
Practice has shown that the usefulness of putAsideQueue was marginal,
its purpose was more often misunderstood than not, its implicit use
by wait() and the message receiving functions was highly error-prone.
It also bloated the API (receiveNew functions wouldn't have been
needed without it). On the other hand, it is easy to provide the needed
behavior of wait() using waitAndEnqueue(), or a loop with receive().
putAsideQueue will be removed at some point in the future.
(!) do not use the receiveNew..() functions as they will be made
redundant when putAsideQueue goes away.
(+) added ev.flush(), although in most cases using the autoflush=yes/no
ini file option is a better idea
(-) cSimplemodule: deprecated phase() (nobody really used it)
(+) added macro Define_Function2
(!) several smaller auxiliary classes were made inner classes to their 'main'
classes. (Examples: cQueueIterator --> cQueue::Iterator, sTopoNode -->
cTopology::Node, etc; full list in include/ChangeLog.) Compatibility
typedefs exist for old names but they will be removed at some point
in the future.
(!) refactoring on dynamic module creation: instead of modtype->buildInside(mod),
one should now write mod->buildInside(), which is more natural.
(Former syntax still works -- a cModuleType::buildInside() is still provided
for backward compatibility). buildInside() delegates task to doBuildInside()
(a new method), so it's doBuildInside() which should be redefined in
subclasses, and also nedc generates now doBuildInside() code.
(i) container objects are now more consistent in what they do when the requested
object doesn't exist:
* Convention 1: methods returning an object reference (e.g. cPar&) now
always throw an exception if the object is not found. (Until now, some
methods issued a warning and returned null reference, i.e. *(cPar*)NULL).
* Convention 2: methods returning a pointer (e.g. cGate*) return NULL
pointer if the object is not found. (Until now, some methods issued
a warning and returned NULL pointer.)
These conventions necessitated some changes (see next items):
(!) par() of cModule and cMessage now throws an exception if parameter was not
found. (Check for existence of a parameter before accessing it can now be
replaced with try..catch if you want!)
(!) cModule: cGate *gate() methods no longer issue a warning if the gate is not
found, just return NULL.
(!) cArray::remove(cObject *) and cQueue::remove(cObject *) methods now
return NULL instead of the original pointer if the object was
not found.
(+) cArray: new set(cObject*) method adds optional hashtable-like
behaviour to cArray: this method replaces the object with the same
name in the array.
(!) cSimulation changes: lastModuleIndex() renamed to lastModuleId();
del() renamed to deleteModule(); add() renamed to addModule()
(-) cSimulation: operator[] deprecated (use module(int) method instead
to access a module by id)
(+) channels are now represented by real objects (subclassed from cChannel)
rather than parameters in cGate. Channels can be assigned to connections
via cGate's setChannel() method;
(-) deprecated cGate's setDelay(), setError(), setDatarate(), setLink()
methods (these attributes should be now set on the channel object).
(-) cSubModIterator: operator[] deprecated (use operator()(int) method instead)
(+) cGate: added isConnectedOutside() and isConnectedInside() utility methods
(+) cGate: added connectTo() method (setFrom() and setTo() got deprecated,
see next item)
(-) deprecated cGate's setFrom() and setTo() methods (use connectTo() instead)
(+) cMessage: added convenience methods for attaching objects to a message:
addObject(), getObject(), hasObject(), removeObject().
User interfaces:
(!) Cmdenv: obsoleted omnetpp.ini entries: display-update=, verbose-simulation=;
they should be replaced with simplified and more powerful options,
see next item:
(+) Cmdenv: introduced express-mode=yes/no (default: no) switch, with
meaning similar to Tkenv (non-express mode: detailed information printed;
express mode: only periodic status updates).
(+) Cmdenv: in normal mode (express-mode=no), the following new ini file
entries are understood:
module-messages=yes/no (default: yes)
printing module ev<< output on/off (as before)
event-banners=yes/no (default: yes)
printing event banners on/off; replaces verbose-simulation=
message-trace=yes/no (default: no)
log message sending (by send(),scheduleAt(), etc) and delivery
on standard output
(+) Cmdenv: in express mode, following new entries are supported:
status-frequency=<integer> (default: 100000)
print status update every n events (on today's computers, and for a
typical simulation model, default value will produce an update perhaps
in every few seconds)
performance-display=yes/no (default: yes)
print detailed (2-line) performance status
(+) Cmdenv: new ini file option: autoflush=yes/no (default: no).
Causes fflush(stdout) to be called after each output (event banner,
status update, ev<< output, etc). This affects both express and normal mode.
(+) Cmdenv: new ini file option: message-trace=yes/no (default: no).
This causes logging each message sending (by send(),scheduleAt(), etc)
and message delivery on the standard output; effective only in normal mode.
(+) Envir (Cmdenv+Tkenv): integrated Steffen Sroka's Akaroa extension
that supports multiple independent simulation runs.
Akaroa can be activated by specifying
[General]
outputvectormanager-class=AkOutputVectorManager
in the ini file. By default, all output vectors are under Akaroa
control; the <modulename>.<vectorname>.akaroa=false setting can be used
to make Akaroa ignore specific vectors.
For more info see the Akaroa home page and the OMNeT++ documentation.
(+) Envir (Cmdenv+Tkenv): added fname-append-host=true/false ini file setting.
When turned on, appends the host name to the names of the output
files (output vector, output scalar, snapshot files). This is
useful when the simulation is run on multiple machines concurrently
(parallel independent runs (Akaroa) or parallel/distributed simulation),
and all running instances write to the same directory (e.g. shared
via NFS mount). [Idea from Steffen Sroka's Akaroa extension]
(i) Tkenv: with "ring" layout, changed display order of modules from
clockwise to the more natural counter-clockwise
(!) Tkenv: changed positioning of vector modules with display string "p=x,y"
(that is, with position, but no explicit layout parameter).
"p=x,y" now ALWAYS means "p=x,y,exact", that is, the module is placed
at (x,y). Before, "p=x,y" meant "p=x,y,row" or "p=x,y,ring" (where "row
or ring" is a default layout) if the module was in a vector, and this
caused counterintuitive displacements if a module was placed individually,
because a (dx,dy) shift coming from the layout was superponed onto the
position (x,y)).
OMNeT++ 2.2 (May 2002)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(+) The simulation kernel was made const-correct; because of this, older code
may need changes (especially where one didn't use the Module_Class_Members()
macro to define module classes.)
(!) cModule's display string methods were reorganized:
the displayString(int type) method was split into displayString()
and displayStringAsParent(), eliminating the type parameter. Similar
change was made to the set...() methods. (Old methods remained but are
now deprecated.)
(+) New methods: opp_nextrand(long& seed); opp_strlen(..);
opp_strprettytrunc(..); opp_mkindexedname(..) (the latter was formerly
called indexedname()).
(+) fullName() no longer uses a static buffer; with fullPath(),
it is possible to avoid static buffers by using the new
fullPath(buffer,buflen) method.
(+) In NED, an expression may now refer to a submodule parameter with the
following syntax: submod.par or submod[index].par. The index
may not be an expression itself.
OMNeT++ 2.1 (May 2001)
OMNeT++ 2.0 patch 1 (March 2001)
OMNeT++ 2.0 (February 2001)
OMNeT++ 2.0b5 (June 2000)
No changes affecting code portability across versions.
OMNeT++ 2.0b4 (May 2000)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Simulation library:
(!) The source was made 'const char *'-correct
(-) deprecated TRUE/FALSE: the C++ true/false keywords should be used instead
(+) multi-stage module initialization support via cModule's
initialize(int stage) and int numInitStages() functions.
(+) the send...() functions now have versions which take cGate* pointers.
(+) sum() and sqrSum() members added to the statistics classes (cStdDev and
subclasses)
(+) isNumeric() member added to cPar
(+) remove(cObject *) added to cArray.
(+) functions added to cModule to facilitate navigating the module hierarchy:
int findSubmodule(...), cModule *submodule(...) and
cModule *moduleByRelativePath(...).
User interfaces:
(+) you may link more than one user interfaces into the simulation
executable, and select one at runtime with the
[General]/user-interface=Tkenv (or =Cmdenv) ini file option or the -u Tkenv
(or -u Cmdenv) command-line argument to the simulation executable.
(+) The per-module extra stack size needed by the user interface libraries
can now be configured from the ini file: [Cmdenv]/extra-stack= and
[Tkenv]/extra-stack= options.
