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Diffstat (limited to 'python/m5/config.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | python/m5/config.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/python/m5/config.py b/python/m5/config.py index 48d945d14..091df3662 100644 --- a/python/m5/config.py +++ b/python/m5/config.py @@ -291,6 +291,10 @@ class SimObject(object): def __init__(self, _value_parent = None, **kwargs): self._children = {} + if _value_parent and type(_value_parent) != type(self): + # this was called as a type conversion rather than a clone + raise TypeError, "Cannot convert %s to %s" % \ + (_value_parent.__class__.__name__, self.__class__.__name__) if not _value_parent: _value_parent = self.__class__ # clone values |