Before this commit, the `STRING` variant inserted a literal string;
the `CHARACTER` variant inserted a string. This commit renames them
to `LITERAL` and `STRING` respectively.
These are useful for formal verification with SBY where they can be used
to display solver chosen `rand const reg` signals and signals derived
from those.
The previous error message for non-constant initial $display statements
is downgraded to a log message. Constant initial $display statements
will be shown both during elaboration and become part of the RTLIL so
that the `sim` output is complete.
This makes tests/verilog/dynamic_range_lhs.v pass, after ensuring that
nowrshmsk is actually tested.
Stride is extracted from indexing of two-dimensional packed arrays and
variable slices on the form dst[i*stride +: width] = src, and is used
to optimize the generated CASE block.
Also uses less confusing variable names for indexing of lhs wires.
Compiling on GCC hid this bug as it optimized the nullptr call away as
undefined behavior, but running the SBY tests with a clang build hits
this error.
Instead of passing around in_lvalue/in_param flags to simplify, we make
the flags into properties of the AST nodes themselves. After the tree
is first parsed, we once do
ast->fixup_hierarchy_flags(true)
to walk the full hierarchy and set the flags to their initial correct
values. Then as long as one is using ->clone(), ->cloneInto() and the
AstNode constructor (with children passed to it) to modify the tree, the
flags will be kept in sync automatically. On the other hand if we are
modifying the children list of an existing node, we may need to call
node->fixup_hierarchy_flags()
to do a localized fixup. That fixup will update the flags on the node's
children, and will propagate the change down the tree if necessary.
clone() doesn't always retain the flags of the subtree being cloned. It
will produce a tree with a consistent setting of the flags, but the
root doesn't have in_param/in_lvalue set unless it's intrinsic to the
type of node being cloned (e.g. AST_PARAMETER). cloneInto() will make
sure the cloned subtree has the flags consistent with the new placement
in a hierarchy.
Add asserts to make sure the old and new way of determining the flags
agree.
The following commit will replace the way in_lvalue/in_param is being
tracked in the simplify code. Make tweaks in advance so that it will
be easier to make the old way and the new way agree.
These changes all should be innocuous.
The correct way of using the 'at_zero' regime of simplify is to perform
the simplification on a cloned AST subtree, otherwise the "at_zero"
evaluation seeps into the main tree.
Move the effect of the 'at_zero' flag to the cloning itself, so that
the simplify flag can be retired. We assume we can rely on id2ast in
the new clone method.
It's a repeating pattern to print an error message tied to an AST
node. Start using an 'input_error' helper for that. Among other
things this is beneficial in shortening the print lines, which tend
to be long.
(* nowrshmsk *) on a struct / union variable now affects dynamic
bit slice assignments to members of the struct / union.
(* nowrshmsk *) can in some cases yield significant resource savings; the
combination of pipeline shifting and indexed writes is an example of this.
Constructs similar to the one below can benefit from (* nowrshmsk *), and
in addition it is no longer necessary to split out the shift assignments
on separate lines in order to avoid the error message "ERROR: incompatible
mix of lookahead and non-lookahead IDs in LHS expression."
always_ff @(posedge clk) begin
if (rotate) begin
{ v5, v4, v3, v2, v1, v0 } <= { v4, v3, v2, v1, v0, v5 };
if (res) begin
v0.bytes <= '0;
end else if (w) begin
v0.bytes[addr] <= data;
end
end
end
This brings the metadata for packed arrays in packed structs
in line with the metadata for unpacked arrays, and correctly
handles the case when both lsb and msb in an address range are
non-zero.
Otherwise the AST_CELL simplification uses the wrong celltype before the
AST_CELLARRAY simplification has a chance to unroll it and change it to
the $array celltype.
This is primarily intended to enable the standard-permitted use of
module-scoped identifiers to refer to tasks and non-constant functions.
As a side-effect, this also adds support for the non-standard use of
module-scoped identifiers referring to constant functions, a feature
that is supported in some other tools, including Iverilog.
Emil J. Tywoniak
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Catherine
Martin Povišer
Dag Lem
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Jannis Harder
Charlotte
Zachary Snow
Miodrag Milanovic