- basic functionality similar to std::span (C++20).
Holds pointer and size: for lightweight handling of address ranges.
- implements cdata_bytes() and data_bytes() methods for similarity
with UList. For span, however, both container accesses are const
but the data_bytes() method is only available when the
underlying pointer is non-const.
No specializations of std::as_bytes() or std::as_writeable_bytes()
as free functions, since std::byte etc are not available anyhow.
- recover the target of symbolic links.
This is needed when re-creating a file tree on another rank.
ENH: handle checkGzip, followLink flags in fileHander filePath()
- previously just relied on the backend defaults, now pass through
- separate init(...) for common constructor init steps
ENH: extend rmDir to handle removal of empty directories only
- recursively remove directories that only contain other directories
but no other contents. Treats dead links as non-content.
- in various situations with mesh regions it is also useful to
filter out or remove the defaultRegion name (ie, "region0").
Can now do that conveniently from the polyMesh itself or as a static
function. Simply use this
const word& regionDir = polyMesh::regionName(regionName);
OR mesh.regionName()
instead of
const word& regionDir =
(
regionName != polyMesh::defaultRegion
? regionName
: word::null
);
Additionally, since the string '/' join operator filters out empty
strings, the following will work correctly:
(polyMesh::regionName(regionName)/polyMesh::meshSubDir)
(mesh.regionName()/polyMesh::meshSubDir)
* lessEqOp -> lessEqualOp
* greaterEqOp -> greaterEqualOp
to avoid ambiguitity with other forms such as 'plusEqOp' where the
'Eq' implies an assigment. The name change also aligns better with
C++ <functional> names such as std::less_equal, std::greater_equal
ENH: simple labelRange predicates gt0/ge0/lt0/le0
- mirrors scalarRange tests.
Lower overhead than using labelMinMax::ge(0) etc since it does not
create an intermediate (is stateless) and can be used as a constexpr
- do not need STRINGIFY macros in ragel code
- remove wordPairHashTable.H and use equivalent wordPairHashes.H instead
STYLE: replace addDictOption with explicit option
- the usage text is otherwise misleading
GIT: combine Pair/Tuple2 directories
- unused in regular OpenFOAM code
- POSIX version uses deprecated gethostbyname()
- Windows version never worked
COMP: localize, noexcept on internal OSspecific methods
STYLE: support fileName::Type SYMLINK and LINK as synonyms
- previously simply reused the scan token, which works fine for
non-nested tokenizations but becomes too fragile with nesting.
Now changed to use tagged unions that can be copied about
and still retain some rudimentary knowledge of their types,
which can be manually triggered with a destroy() call.
- provide an 'identifier' non-terminal as an additional catch
to avoid potential leakage on parsing failure.
- adjust lemon rules and infrastructure:
- use %token to predefine standard tokens.
Will reduce some noise on the generated headers by retaining the
order on the initial token names.
- Define BIT_NOT, internal token rename NOT -> LNOT
- handle non-terminal vector values.
Support vector::x, vector::y and vector::z constants
- permit fieldExpr access to time().
Probably not usable or useful for an '#eval' expression,
but useful for a Function1.
- provisioning for hooks into function calls. Establishes token
names for next commit(s).
- argList::envExecutable() static method.
This is identical to getEnv("FOAM_EXECUTABLE"), where the name of
the executable has typically been set from the argList construction.
Provides a singleton access to this value from locations that
do not have knowledge of the originating command args (argList).
This is a similar rationale as for the argList::envGlobalPath() static.
- additional argList::envRelativePath() static method.
- make -dry-run handling more central and easier to use by adding into
argList itself.
STYLE: drop handling of -srcDoc (v1706 option)
- replaced with -doc-source for 1712 and never used much anyhow
- snGrad, internalField, neighbourField.
Functional use as per swak: "... + internalField(T) ..."
ENH: additional volume/patch expressions
- deltaT()
STYLE: rename exprDriverWriter -> fvExprDriverWriter
- the original class name was a misnomer since it holds a reference
to fvExprDriver
BUG: expression faceToPoint/pointToFace definitions were flipped
ENH: refactor expression hierarchy and code style
- handle TimeState reference at the top-level for simpler derivations
- unified internal search parameters (cruft)
Step 1.
include "addAllRegionOptions.H"
Adds the -allRegions, -regions and -region options to argList.
Step 2.
include "getAllRegionOptions.H"
Processes the options with -allRegions selecting everything
from the regionProperties.
OR use -regions to specify multiple regions (from
regionProperties), and can also contain regular expressions
OR use the -region option
Specifying a single -regions NAME (not a regular expresssion)
is the same as -region NAME and doesn't use regionProperties
Creates a `wordList regionNames`
Step 3.
Do something with the region names.
Either directly, or quite commonly with the following
include "createNamedMeshes.H"
Creates a `PtrList<fvMesh> meshes`
STYLE: add description to some central include files
This adds a 'geometry' scheme section to the system/fvSchemes:
geometry
{
type highAspectRatio;
}
These 'fvGeometryMethod's are used to calculate
- deltaCoeffs
- nonOrthoCoeffs
etc and can even modify the basic face/cellCentres calculation.
- Favour use of argList methods that are more similar to dictionary
method names with the aim of reducing the cognitive load.
* Silently deprecate two-parameter get() method in favour of the
more familiar getOrDefault.
* Silently deprecate opt() method in favour of get()
These may be verbosely deprecated in future versions.
- have printBuildInfo output to std::ostream
- removed extraneous include "stdFoam.H"
ENH: revert to pre-processor defines for hard-coded paths (#1712)
- redundant information, but more robust at run-time without relying
on initialization order
- less frequently used, but the information was previously inaccessible
under etcFiles.C.
Now exposed within the foamVersion namespace and defined under
<global.Cver> to improve configuration possibilities.
COMP: delay evaluation of fieldToken enumeration types
- lazy evaluation at runTime instead of compile-time to make the code
independent of initialization order.
Otherwise triggers problems on gcc-4.8.5 on some systems where
glibc is the same age, or older.
For example,
$ someSolver -info-switch writeOptionalEntries
- note that values changed via the command-line are changed after the
etc/controlDict entries, but *before* any case-local
system/controlDict entries.
However, in many testing cases the command-line options eliminate
the need for such local file modifications.
ENH: cleanup handling of local debug switches in Time
- add as methods directly on simpleObjectRegistry to avoid code
duplication
STYLE: adjust internal naming of ITstream parameters
- this can be useful for preloading of libraries, or for utilities
that don't use system/controlDict.
The additional libraries can be specified individually:
myUtil -lib lib1 -lib lib2 -lib lib3
When specified like this, the options add up.
Or as a 'captured' list using OpenFOAM's standard arg list handling:
myUtil -lib '(' lib1 lib2 lib3 ')'
myUtil -lib \( lib1 lib2 lib3 \)
or as single argument list:
myUtil -lib '("lib1" "lib2" "lib3")'
When specified as a single argument, would normally take advantage
of the transparent handling of word vs fileName and omit the string
quotes:
myUtil -lib '(lib1 lib2 lib3)'
ENH: dlOpen error messages now propagated into dlLibraryTable
- this makes the context more relevant and also avoids the previous
annoyance of double warnings (one from the POSIX loader, and one
from dlLibraryTable)
STYLE: mark -noFunctionObjects and -withFunctionObjects as 'advanced'
- reduces clutter. Still visible with -help-full
- when windows portable executables (.exe or .dll) files are loaded,
their dependent libraries not fully loaded. For OpenFOAM this means
that the static constructors which are responsible for populating
run-time selection tables are not triggered, and most of the run-time
selectable models will simply not be available.
Possible Solution
=================
Avoid this problem by defining an additional library symbol such as
the following:
extern "C" void libName_Load() {}
in the respective library, and tag this symbol as 'unresolved' for
the linker so that it will attempt to resolve it at run-time by
loading the known libraries until it finds it. The link line would
resemble the following:
-L/some/path -llibName -ulibName_Load
Pros:
- Allows precise control of forced library loading
Cons:
- Moderately verbose adjustment of some source files (even with macro
wrapping for the declaration).
- Adjustment of numerous Make/options files and somewhat ad hoc
in nature.
- Requires additional care when implementing future libraries and/or
applications.
- This is the solution taken by the symscape patches (Richard Smith)
Possible Solution
=================
Avoid this problem by simply force loading all linked libraries.
This is done by "scraping" the information out of the respective
Make/options file (after pre-processing) and using that to define
the library list that will be passed to Foam::dlOpen() at run-time.
Pros:
- One-time (very) minimal adjustment of the sources and wmake toolchain
- Automatically applies to future applications
Cons:
- Possibly larger memory footprint of application (since all dependent
libraries are loaded).
- Possible impact on startup time (while loading libraries)
- More sensitive to build failures. Since the options files are
read and modified based on the existence of the dependent
libraries as a preprocessor step, if the libraries are initially
unavailable for the first attempt at building the application,
the dependencies will be inaccurate for later (successful) builds.
- This is solution taken by the bluecape patches (Bruno Santos)
Adopted Solution
================
The approach taken by Bruno was adopted in a modified form since
this appears to be the most easily maintained.
Additional Notes
================
It is always possible to solve this problem by defining a corresponding
'libs (...)' entry in the case system/controlDict, which forces a dlOpen
of the listed libraries. This is obviously less than ideal for large-scale
changes, but can work to resolve an individual problem.
The peldd utility (https://github.com/gsauthof/pe-util), which is
also packaged as part of MXE could provide yet another alternative.
Like ldd it can be used to determine the library dependencies of
binaries or libraries. This information could be used to define an
additional load layer for Windows.
- reduces some dictionary clutter and probably looks less confusing
than having an ending that may not correspond to the current OS.
Eg, "fvOptions" instead of "libfvOptions.so", "libfvOptions.dylib" ...
- convenience dlOpen method for multiple files
- amalgamate dlSym() and dlSymFound() into a single dlSymFind() backend
with optional 'required' argument. This makes it possible to
query and assign at once.
- extracts values from the arch "LSB;label=32;scalar=64" header entry
to provision for managing dissimilar primitive sizes.
Compensate for the additional IOobject members by narrowing the types
for the (objectState, readOption, writeOption) enumerations
- provide relativePath() for argList and for Time.
These are relative to the case globalPath().
Eg,
Info<< "output: " << runTime.relativePath(outputFile) << nl;
- for some special cases we wish to mark command-line arguments as
being optional, in order to do our own treatment. For example,
when an arbitrary number of arguments should be allowed.
Now tag this situation with argList::noMandatoryArgs().
The argList::argsMandatory() query can then be used in any further
logic, including the standard default argument checking.
- with the new default check, can consolidate the special-purpose
"setRootCaseNonMandatoryArgs.H"
into the regular
"setRootCase.H"
- revert to a simple "setRootCase.H" and move all the listing related
bits to a "setRootCaseLists.H" file. This leaves the information
available for solvers, or whoever else wishes, without being
introduced everywhere.
- add include guards and scoping to the listing files and rename to
something less generic.
listOptions.H -> setRootCaseListOptions.H
listOutput.H -> setRootCaseListOutput.H
