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| author | Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> | 2017-05-09 19:22:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> | 2017-05-22 17:15:09 +0000 |
| commit | 6914a229a038206341ae1fea46393965a555ca9a (patch) | |
| tree | 4a11cfaed46dabc827c5ee17cd976f42b5f53d49 /ext/pybind11/docs/intro.rst | |
| parent | ca1d18d599dcc620bf526fb22042af95b1b60b68 (diff) | |
| download | gem5-6914a229a038206341ae1fea46393965a555ca9a.tar.xz | |
ext: Upgrade PyBind11 to version 2.1.1
Change-Id: I16870dec402d661295f9d013dc23e362b2b2c169
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3225
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | ext/pybind11/docs/intro.rst | 18 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/ext/pybind11/docs/intro.rst b/ext/pybind11/docs/intro.rst index 429a01cdd..2149c18db 100644 --- a/ext/pybind11/docs/intro.rst +++ b/ext/pybind11/docs/intro.rst @@ -17,15 +17,14 @@ compatibility has its cost: arcane template tricks and workarounds are necessary to support the oldest and buggiest of compiler specimens. Now that C++11-compatible compilers are widely available, this heavy machinery has become an excessively large and unnecessary dependency. - Think of this library as a tiny self-contained version of Boost.Python with everything stripped away that isn't relevant for binding generation. Without -comments, the core header files only require ~2.5K lines of code and depend on -Python (2.7 or 3.x) and the C++ standard library. This compact implementation -was possible thanks to some of the new C++11 language features (specifically: -tuples, lambda functions and variadic templates). Since its creation, this -library has grown beyond Boost.Python in many ways, leading to dramatically -simpler binding code in many common situations. +comments, the core header files only require ~4K lines of code and depend on +Python (2.7 or 3.x, or PyPy2.7 >= 5.7) and the C++ standard library. This +compact implementation was possible thanks to some of the new C++11 language +features (specifically: tuples, lambda functions and variadic templates). Since +its creation, this library has grown beyond Boost.Python in many ways, leading +to dramatically simpler binding code in many common situations. Core features ************* @@ -51,6 +50,9 @@ Goodies ******* In addition to the core functionality, pybind11 provides some extra goodies: +- Python 2.7, 3.x, and PyPy (PyPy2.7 >= 5.7) are supported with an + implementation-agnostic interface. + - It is possible to bind C++11 lambda functions with captured variables. The lambda capture data is stored inside the resulting Python function object. @@ -88,6 +90,6 @@ Supported compilers ******************* 1. Clang/LLVM (any non-ancient version with C++11 support) -2. GCC (any non-ancient version with C++11 support) +2. GCC 4.8 or newer 3. Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or newer 4. Intel C++ compiler v15 or newer |