ruby: Import the latest ruby changes from gems.

This was done with an automated process, so there could be things that were
done in this tree in the past that didn't make it.  One known regression
is that atomic memory operations do not seem to work properly anymore.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/gems_common/util.cc b/src/mem/gems_common/util.cc
index a64da15a6..403be383f 100644
--- a/src/mem/gems_common/util.cc
+++ b/src/mem/gems_common/util.cc
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@
  * $Id$
  */
 
-#include <cassert>
-
+#include "assert.hh"
 #include "mem/gems_common/util.hh"
 
 // Split a string into a head and tail strings on the specified
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ string string_split(string& str, char split_character)
   string head = "";
   string tail = "";
 
-  unsigned counter = 0;
+  uint counter = 0;
   while(counter < str.size()) {
     if (str[counter] == split_character) {
       counter++;
@@ -91,6 +90,19 @@ float string_to_float(string& str)
   return ret;
 }
 
+bool string_to_bool(const string & str)
+{
+  string lower(str);
+  for (size_t i=0;i<str.length();i++)
+    lower[i] = tolower(str[i]);
+  if (lower == "true")
+    return true;
+  else if (lower == "false")
+    return false;
+  else
+    assert(0);
+}
+
 // Log functions
 int log_int(long long n)
 {