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.
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.
e.g. `$displayh(8'ha)` won't have a padding set, because it just gets
`lzero` set instead by `compute_required_decimal_places`.
It also doesn't have a width. In this case, we can just fill in a dummy
(unused) padding. Either space or zero would work, but space is a bit
more distinct given the width field follows.
Also omit writing the width if it's zero. This makes the emitted ilang
a little cleaner in places; `{8:> h0u}` is the output for this example,
now. The other possible extreme would be `{8:>00h0u}`.
For input like "{", "{1", etc., we would exit the loop due to
`i < fmt.size()` no longer being the case, and then check if
`++i == fmt.size()`. That would increment i to `fmt.size() + 1`,
and so execution continues.
The intention is to move i beyond the ':', so we do it only in that
case instead.
Catherine
Martin Povišer
gatecat
Charlotte