RE: [ns] howto: new Simulator -myarg

["Haobo Yu" <haoboy@isi.edu>]

This is an otcl trick. When you call [new Bagel -abc on], it'll call
Bagel::init{} then Bagel::abc{on}. You can find Simulator::multicast{} in
tcl/mcast/ns-mcast.tcl.

You may check out otcl's doc/ for more details.

- Haobo

> I want to have my own argument/option to the Simulator class,
> when I trace
> through [new Simulator -multicast on], I see that the Simulator instproc
> init calls
> eval $self next args
>
> which then calls
>
> _o4 next -multicast on
>
> which leads to
>
> $self set multiSim_ 1
>
> I went through files (via egrep) to see if there is anycode doing that.
>
> But I only found it in ~ns/gen/ns_tcl.cc
>
> If I want to add my own argument/option where should I add code.
>
> I am eagerly looking forward to your reply.
>
> Regards,
> Sudhin.
>
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