Drop use_selection flag from Json and Jny Writers, instead they always operate on selections and if the write_* pass is called without -selected then it pushes the complete selection.
rtlil_backend prints differently if it is dumping a portion or whole design, so push the complete selection inside of the dump if needed.
Also update `Design::selected_modules()` error message for partially selected modules to match the existing error messages that it replaces.
New methods on Design to push/pop selection instead of accessing the selection stack directly. Includes methods for pushing a full/complete/empty selection.
Also helper methods on modules to check `is_selected` and `is_selected_whole`.
Now uses two enums, one to control whether or not to include partially selected
modules (and what to do if they are encountered), and one to control whether or
not to include boxed modules (and what to do if they are encountered).
Mark Design::selected{modules, whole_modules}() deprecated and make them
provide warnings on boxes. There are a lot of places that use them and I can't
always tell which ones support boxed modules and which don't.
The `Design::selected_*()` methods no longer unconditionally skip boxed modules. Instead, selections are now box and design aware.
The selection constructor now optionally takes a design pointer, and has a new `selects_boxes` flag. If the selection has an assigned design, then `Selection::selected_*()` will only return true for boxed modules if the selects_boxes flag is set. A warning is raised if a selection is checked and no design is set. Selections can change design via the `Selection::optimize()` method.
Most places that iterate over `Design::modules()` and check `Selection::selected_module()` should instead use `Design::selected_modules()`.
Since boxed modules should only ever be selected explicitly, and `full_selection` (now) refers to all non-boxed modules, `Selection::optimize()` will clear the `full_selection` flag if the `selects_boxes` flag is enabled, and instead explicitly selects all modules (including boxed modules). This also means that `full_selection` will only get automatically applied to a design without any boxed modules.
These changes necessitated a number of changes to `select.cc` in order to support this functionality when operating on selections, in particular when combining selections (e.g. by union or difference).
To minimize redundancy, a number of places that previously iterated over `design->modules()` now push the current selection to the design, use `design->selected_modules()`, and then pop the selection when done.
Introduce `RTLIL::NamedObject`, to allow for iterating over all members of a module with a single iterator instead of needing to iterate over wires, cells, memories, and processes separately.
Also implement `Module::selected_{memories, processes, members}()` to match wires and cells methods. The `selected_members()` method combines each of the other `selected_*()` methods into a single list.
Krystine Sherwin
Martin Povišer
Miodrag Milanović
Akash Levy
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Patrick Urban
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Mike Inouye
Robin Ole Heinemann