A compressed assignment statement should give exactly the same
result as the equivalent uncompressed statement. This means
that the type (signed/unsigned) of the LHS affects the type of
the RHS expression (unlike in normal assignments). We need to
take care that bit/part selects and concatenations are correctly
identified as unsigned values, even in the cases where they
reduce to a single whole signal.
In generate blocks such as for loops, there may be many generated
scopes that have the same generated name. But in these cases, there
is an index number in the hname that can be used. So do so.
The reported problem was caused by a null statement in a case statement,
which caused the check for an infinite loop to fail. Further testing
exposed more problems with null statements in loop statements - these
caused crashes earlier in elaboration.
Implicit ports may be unnamed, either because the port expression
is not a simple/escaped identifier, or because there is no port
expression. To handle these cases, error messages should report
the port position as well as the port name.
The compiler was correctly detecting and reporting errors in loop
expressions and statements, but then crashing when it tried to build
the sensitivity list. Fix this by not adding a loop statement to the
netlist unless all its components have been successfully elaborated.
When unsized literals are used in case item expressions, it is likely
that the calculated expression width will be larger than necessary to
unambiguously select the correct case item (particularly when using
"strict" expression elaboration). This patch adds an optimisation
step that prunes the expressions to the minimum necessary width.
This goes all the way down to the vvp level, where we create support
for arrays of objects, generate the new code in the -tvvp code
generator, and elaborate the arrays in the first place.
The parser always passes a single NULL argument for system tasks. For a
method call which will add a signal to call the method on we need to
ignore this NULL argument.
This required keeping for-loops as actual things through the
netlist form so that the synthesizer can get at and understand
the parts of the for-loop. This may improve vvp code generation
in the future, but for now continue to present to the vvp code
generation the block-while form.
This gets nested l-values to (but just short of) the ivl_target API.
Now the elaborator can process nested l-values, but I haven't figured
out how to present that at the ivl_target.h API.
It is better to leave the handling of PChainConstructor calls to
the elaboration, instead of stripping them out early. This allows
for handling the arguments of the chain constructor in the correct
scope.
Static properties are like variables in a named scope.
Detect these variables during elaboration so that the
code generator just sees them as variables.
This implementation works by detecting assignments
to constant properties in elaboration. Allow initializer
assignments to assign to the constant, error all other
assignments, and otherwise treat the constant like any
other property.
For constant word indices, issue a warning if the index is out of
range or an undefined value. In any case, the RHS value should be
discarded, and the actual assignment should be skipped.
If a logical pull device is converted into a CA then it is an assignment
with strength, so just emit the appropriate constant to get the correct
functionality (e.g. 1'b1 for a pull up and 1'b0 for a pull down).
Also add missing file/line information.
Add support for case, forever, and repeat statements in constant
functions. Also fix a bug in the constant function implementation
of NetESelect when used for zero/sign extension.
The compiler was treating case and case item expressions as
self-determined. They should be context-sensitive, just like
the operands of a comparison operation.
This patch implements the evaluate_function method for the NetDisable
and NetSTask classes. It also makes the checks for a function being
constant work when the function contains nested scopes (named blocks).
SystemVerilog allows a function to be called without an assignment for
the return value. This patch adds a warning that Icarus does not currently
support this and provides a place to add this functionality later.
This involves working out the code to get the base type of a select
expression of a darray. Also added the runtime support for darrays
with real value elements.
These two typedefs exactly matched earlier ones in the same scope and
gcc was complaining that they were shadowing the previous definitions.
Since the definitions matched exactly just deleting the second
typedef was acceptable.
Added: basic vpiPort VPI Objects for vpiModulkes
vpiDirection, vpiPortIndex, vpiName, vpiSize attributes
Since ports do not exist as net-like entities (nets either side
module instance boundaries are in effect connect directly in
the language front-ends internal representation) the port information
is effectively just meta-data passed through t-dll interface and
output as a additional annotation of module scopes in vvp.
Added: vpiLocalParam attribute for vpiParameter VPI objects
Added: support build for 32-bit target on 64-bit host (--with-m32
option to configure.in and minor tweaks to Makefiles and systemc-vpi).
Making the scope type NESTED_MODULE was just plain wrong, because
it didn't really encapsulate the meaning of program blocks OR
nested modules. So instead create nested_module() and program_block()
flags and use those to test scope constraints.
Martin Whitaker
Christian Taedcke
Stephen Williams
Martin Whitaker
Larry Doolittle
Maciej Suminski
Cary R
Arun Persaud
Andrew Stevens