Fabian Ruffy

Replace Util::Enumerator with a C++-native enumerator in resolveReferences

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>I suspect you could get a much bigger gain here by getting rid of the java-style Util::Enumerator (which does a bunch of dynamic allocation and generates much garbage to be...

Replace BDWGC with shared pointers.

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Tracking a comment. We can maybe achieve this at some point in time. >Related to this, I've been working on code (in https://github.com/ChrisDodd/p4c/tree/cdodd-disablegc) to allow removing the garbage collector and...

Propagate source info correctly in sideEffects.cpp

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The way SideEffectOrdering propagates source information causes it to duplicate the source information in some cases. Ideally, we want to point to either the left- or right-hand side of an...

Initialize cstrings with the empty string.

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This PR is meant to raise a discussion. We stumbled across this in #4357 where an incorrectly initialized cstring caused a bug. This PR changes the default initializer to use...

[P4Testgen] Better error handling in the test backends.

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Improve the error handling in the test back ends. Instead of throwing exceptions everywhere, try to gracefully handle errors and bubble them upwards. Considering using a utility macro for that....

[P4Testgen] Reduce the use of static objects in P4Testgen

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CompilerTarget, Target, and Context are all singleton, static mystery objects floating around the interpreter. They are initialized in a specific way that makes it hard to make changes or extend...

Bold refactor to replace boost::fmt with [fmt](https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt), which is closer to the C++20 version of fmt. This is one step to get rid of the majority of the boost dependency....

With #4275 we added the possibility to validate the P4Testgen options in an explicit, second step. We should expand this to also validate options on a per-target basis, e.g., for...

https://github.com/jafingerhut/p4-guide/tree/master/specifying-p4-architectures is a new way to define the structure of a P4 target which can simplify static analysis by defining the transitions and operations between individual program blocks. P4Testgen can...