Named libraries are similar to the work library, but they are not
written to implicitly, or imported implicitly. They are only brought
in by a "library" clause, the the packages within the library are
brought in by a "use" clause.
Presumably, the user will want the ability to explicitly set the
working library location, so create a +vhdl-work+ plusarg setting
for exactly that purpose.
Port map aspects were held in std::maps. Because
of that, in case of multiple assignments to the same
port, some assignments were lost and in effect vhdlpp
produced correct verilog code from a buggy VHDL.
Std::map was replaced by std::multimap. Thanks to it
we can gather this multiple assignments and detect them
in the elaboration phase.
This patch introduces in ScopeBase separate containers
for declarations coming from the current scope and from
the previous scopes.
Until now, in one scope, all objects were kept in an stl map.
When a scope was created inside other scopes, a shallow
copy of the map was made. This solution was nice for
name shadowing (in new scopes, when a name was
encountered, the old objects were overridden by a new
one), but didn't allow for distinguishing where the objects
were allocated. As a result, it is impossible to know who
the owner is and who should delete them.
In this commit ScopeBase gets two containers: for old
and new objects. If a ScopeBase is made from another
ScopeBase object, all objects from the copied object
go to an old_XXX container, where XXX depends on the
type of the copied objects. When a ScopeBase object
is deleted, the objects from new_XXX are deleted and
the ones from old_XXX are not touched.
This patch adds some complexity to the internals
of ScopeBase, but leaves its interface unchanged.
This is rather a cosmetic change. The patch changes
the container used for stack of scopes from std::list
to std::stack. It suits this particular application
a bit better.
Thanks to valgrind analysis it turned out that
there were objects in the parser that were not being
deleted in a proper way. This patch fixes them all.
Instead of using automatic variables for global
types, I allocate them dynamically. Thanks to it,
all type objects can be treated in the same way,
as all of them are pointers allocated with `new'.
Now we will be able to remove all scopes in the same
manner, no matter if it is a global or local scope,
by deleting all carried pointers.
When writing arrays to the work library, handle the special
case that it is an array of std_logic and write a std_logic_vector
declaration instead. This makes for a more compact description.
When a "use" clause tries to pull a package from the work library,
put together a file name and try to find that package in the
work library directory. If found, parse the package file and
try again to find the package.
Bison and Flex generate different interfaces for reentrant
parsers, so handle that different API. We need this change
because library support is going to reuse the parser to
read in library packages.
This function is for the time being used in the
component instatiation. It is checked, whether
an expression is a correct r-value.
To be a correct r-value, it must be either
port name or signal name.
Build up a work library by writing a VHDL representation of the
package header into a source file. This representation needs to
be accurate enough that later invocations of vhdlpp can read them
with the VHDL parser.
The $ivlh_attribute_event system function helps the Verilog runtime
support <name>'event expressions in VHDL. The vhdlpp generates a
call to $ivlh_attribute_event, which in turn uses callbacks to handle
the support.
This is also the start of the vhdl_sys vpi module. This module should
by included whenever VHDL code is parsed.
When a signal (or port) is assigned by a sequential assignment,
the signal or port becomes a reg, instead of a wire(net). Detect
this distinction during elaboration and generate the correct
signal/port declaration.
Keep the entity/component/module port declarations in the module port
list of the generated code. This clarifies the generated code and
fixes a couple bugs for more complicated types.
R-value expressions are more general then L-value expressions, in that
the expression type may be a bit more complex. If the R-value expression
is part of an assignment, then elaborate with the constrained type from
the L-value. In other cases, where the expression type is not as obvious,
use expression type probes to figure out the type of the expression and
elaborate using that calculated type.
VHDL doesn't have a direct way to express "always @(posedge...)"
statements, but we do want to detect common paradigms that naturally
translate. This makes for a better translation.
Entity output ports may be used as l-values in a process within
the bound architecture. Detect that case during elaboration and
adjust the signal declaration so that it works in the Verilog pass.
Infrastructure for debug and emit of sequential statements in processes.
This does not properly handle the actual semantics of the behavioral
code, but it provides an infrastructure where we can handle all the
tricky elaboration to come.
Get to the point where our sample program parses completely, and
the sequential statements generate SequentialStmt objects and a
process object in the architecture.
Also add a few missing expression types.
Added an explicit option prefix="yy" to files that were generated
without an explicit -P.
This makes the lex-generated symbol names self contained without any
help from from build system.
Significant rework of scope management to unify the handling of
types in the ieee library and types/constants/components in packages.
This involved adjusting the parser rules to manage a stack of scopes
and rewriting the IEEE library support to not use global maps for
the loaded types.
This creates the Package class to represent packages, and the
Scope class to represent scopes in general. The library functions
are worked up to support scanning scopes for declarations that are
imported by "use" clauses.
Make sure in a conponent instantiation that the instantiated
component is really declared, and that the ports of the binding
really do match the ports of the declared component. This requires
that we create and save component declarations, and that components
have methods for mapping the ports.
There has been added additional default attribute to
all 'dump' function calls which is in all cases equal
to 0. Now one can specify how much this debug dumping should
be intended. This should allow people to dump smoothly whole
designs (as it was now) as far as separate units.
This is now the parent who specifies the base indentation
for all components (children). For example, architecture
"decides" how much their signals should be indented.
This gets us as far as emiting a component instantiation. Very little
error checking/elaboration is done, so there is room for improvement,
but this is a working stub.
Up till now only "global" use clauses were parsed
and as a result libraries were loaded.
Since use clauses can appear not only in global context,
parsing of non-global clauses has been introduced and
selected names are now handled (like name1.name2.name3).
These signals are declared in the architecture and are local to
the module. The Architecture already parsed and stored these signal
declarations, but this patch adds the ability to actually emit these
signals in the generated code.
In the process of doing this, I had to regularize the elaboration
and emit of VTypes, so that it can be used in multiple places, not
just in entity headers (for ports).
I also added support for bit selects of signals. This effected a couple
places in the parser, and expressions in general.
The bison grammar has been extended in order
to parse configuration statements. Parsing
remains very primitive but principal constructs
can be now recognized.
In VHDL it is allowed to have multiple architectures
per one entity. The proper architecture should be then
chosen in a configuration block. Now, if many architectures
will be found, then there will be a warning message printed.
FIXME notes are added in order not to forget about changes to
be done
These go into the architecture/block of their scope and will be
used by component instantiations to make sure the bindings are
correct and complete.
Also handle signal declarations. The elaborator will use these
to generate module local variables that are used by the architecture.
Also include support for "sorry" messages so that we have a place
to hang unsupported but properly parsed constructs.
In the process of doing this, I also encountered and add parser support
for indexed names. And matching "sorry" messages.
A valarray of an enum does not initialize to 0 so explicitly specify the
value to fill the array with. This was causing the compiler to incorrectly
report that fixed width elements in a concatenation had no size.
The following was done to remove compiler warning when using the native
compiler on OpenSolaris.
Remove the anonymous unions in tgt-vlog95/stmt.c and tgt-vvp/vvp_process.c.
Use UINT_MAX for the maximum unsigned unsigned instead of -1 in
tgt-vvp/draw_net_input.c.
Even though lex defines yywrap() to have no arguments when %option
noyywrp is used it generates a define that takes an argument that is not
used. The compiler warned about this so remove the option and add a
dummy yywrap function.
In principle, some of these should be handled by overloaded operator
functions, but these are built in types with natural translations so
do the obvious things.
Implement the parser infrastructure for handling library use clauses,
and use that to handle specific packages of the ieee library. Make
the numeric types come from the numeric_* packages instead of being
built in.
There are internal types that are unbounded arrays. Allow subtype
syntax that creates bounded versions of these arrays, and elaborate
them as vectors at port boundaries. This makes some interesting types
work out.
Also start replacing vhdlint and vhdlreal with int64_t and double,
which are reasonable values for universal_integer and universal_real
from the VHDL standard. I need these cleaned up because the ints in
particular are used for the literal expressions in array index constraints.
Rather then just relying on comparing type names all throughout
elaboration, create type description data structures and use them
during elaboration to handle proper types.
So translate them to lower case so that internally I don't have to
constantly worry about it. Note that even keywords are case insensitive,
so do the translation BEFORE the keyword check.
Rather then leave net types to implicit declarations, write
declarations explicitly. This will become necessary when more
interesting types are supported.
Separate elaboration from code generation in the Entity, and add
to Architectures a code generator to handle some simple cases. At
this point we have the basic structure for the VHDL compiler.
Elaboration will need a parse tree for expressions. Create one for
the expression types that are currently supported. Also add rules
and the keywords for all the remaining binary logical operators.
This patch updates the make clean target and modifies the vpath search to
match what is done in the main ivl Makefile since this one has the same
issues it does. It also adds a cppcheck target and removes the redundant
libmisc build target since the vpath already handles this.
This patch fixes the ivl build to find files in libmisc using vpath instead
of a separate target. The existing constructs caused build problems after
running a make clean. It also adds an empty checking target to vhdlpp.
Include the compiler infrastructure to vhdlpp for collecting the
file and line information and attaching it to entities and ports.
Make the parser store the file name during parse.
Create a libmisc library where I can put source files that are
used by multiple programs within the source tree.
Add enough rules to parse a simple VHDL program:
Parse library and use clauses,
Parse entity declarations, and
Parse architecture bodies.
Add some parser infrastructure:
Handle syntax errors with useful error messages,
Include file name and line numbers in parse errors,
Add some parser debug aids.
Stephen Williams
Cary R
Pawel Szostek
Greg Steuck
Pawel Szostek
Larry Doolittle
Jared Casper