This commit achieves three roughly equally important goals:
1. To bring the rendering code in kernel/fmt.cc and in cxxrtl.h as close
together as possible, with an ideal of only having the bigint library
as the difference between the render functions.
2. To make the treatment of `$time` and `$realtime` in CXXRTL closer to
the Verilog semantics, at least in the formatting code.
3. To change the code generator so that all of the `$print`-to-`string`
conversion code is contained inside of a closure.
There are two reasons to aim for goal (3):
a. Because output redirection through definition of a global ostream
object is neither convenient nor useful for environments where
the output is consumed by other code rather than being printed on
a terminal.
b. Because it may be desirable to, in some cases, ignore the `$print`
cells that are present in the netlist based on a runtime decision.
This is doubly true for an upcoming `$check` cell implementing
assertions, since failing a `$check` would by default cause a crash.
In preparation for substantial expansion of CXXRTL's runtime, this commit
reorganizes the files used by the implementation. Only minimal changes are
required in a consumer.
First, change:
-I$(yosys-config --datdir)/include
to:
-I$(yosys-config --datdir)/include/backends/cxxrtl/runtime
Second, change:
#include <backends/cxxrtl/cxxrtl.h>
to:
#include <cxxrtl/cxxrtl.h>
(and do the same for cxxrtl_vcd.h, etc.)
We add a new flow graph node type, PRINT_SYNC, as they don't get handled
with regular CELL_EVALs. We could probably move this grouping out of
the dump method.
Removing some signed checks and logic where we've already guaranteed the
values to be positive. Indeed, in these cases, if a negative value got
through (per my realisation in the signed fuzz harness), it would cause
an infinite loop due to flooring division.
We need to invoke "read_verilog" manually, since the default action on
input files is to defer processing. Under such conditions, we never
simplify the AST, and initial $prints never execute.
Catherine
N. Engelhardt
Asherah Connor
Charlotte
Charlotte