From: Curtis Dunham <Curtis.Dunham@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:24:20 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: stats: better error message for uninitialized statistic
X-Git-Tag: stable_2014_08_26~62
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fa4a262204953071be1ca34672f25b5de9af19ef;p=gem5.git

stats: better error message for uninitialized statistic

As suggested by Nathan Binkert in 2008:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.m5.users/2676
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diff --git a/src/python/m5/stats/__init__.py b/src/python/m5/stats/__init__.py
index 765f9a634..770749bf0 100644
--- a/src/python/m5/stats/__init__.py
+++ b/src/python/m5/stats/__init__.py
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ def enable():
 
     for stat in stats_list:
         if not stat.check() or not stat.baseCheck():
-            fatal("stat check failed for '%s' %d\n", stat.name, stat.id)
+            fatal("statistic '%s' (%d) was not properly initialized " \
+                  "by a regStats() function\n", stat.name, stat.id)
 
         if not (stat.flags & flags.display):
             stat.name = "__Stat%06d" % stat.id