We don't support evaluating user-defined system functions at compile
time. If possible, defer evaluation until run time. If used in a
constant expression, output a "sorry" message.
This adds a -u option to the driver to allow the user to specify that
they want each source file to be treated as a separate compilation
unit, and modifies the compiler to accept a list of files (either on
the command line or via a file specified by a new -F option). This
list of files is then preprocessed and parsed separately, causing all
compiler directives (including macro definitions) to only apply to the
file containing them, as required by the SystemVerilog standard.
Replace explicit comparisons against generation_flag with calls to
the gn_system_verilog helper function, both for code clarity and
to fix a couple of bugs. Also simplify the implementation of the
function, as we already rely on the generation_flag enumeration
being an ordered list.
Unsized expressions can expand to extremely large widths. Usually this
is actually a mistake in the source code, but it can lead to the compiler
temporarily using extremely large amounts of memory, or in the worst
case, crashing. This adds a cap on the width of unsized expressions (by
default 65536 bits, but overridable by the user), and causes a warning
message to be output when the cap is reached.
Emit the elaborated class methods. Also generate root scopes to
represent the classes in order to hold the methods. These scopes
can also in the future be used to implement static properties.
Pure functions with constant operands can be evaluated at compile
time rather than at run time. This patch provides a global control
to enable this optimisation. Until constant function support is
complete, by default it is disabled.
Since the vlog95 code generator needs the strength information we do
not want to hide it behind a concat-Z optimization. For now we abort
the optimization, but in the future we could add parts of this back
in (e.g. all the drivers have matching strength then replace with a
normal concat and a buf-Z if the strength are not both strong. The
original buf-Z should be removed to reduce the number of LPM devices).
An important advantage of program blocks is its ability to nest
within a module. This winds up also allowing modules to nest, which
is legal but presumably less used feature.
It was a poor choice to only add -g2009 for 1800-2009 and ignore the
previous version of System Verilog 1800-2005. This patch adds a
generation for 1800-2005 and also adds `begin_keywords support for
1800-2005. The previous SystemVerilog keywords have been put under
the 1800-2005 generation and the new one from 1800-2009 have also
been added.
The compiler currently performs parameter expression elaboration before
performing parameter overrides. This means that the information needed
to correctly determine the expression type and width may not be available
at the time elaboration is performed. This patch reworks the code to
delay elaboration until after all overrides have been performed. It
also provides a new -g option that controls how the width of parameter
expressions is calculated when the parameter itself is unsized.
This gets the enumeration type through to the ivl_target API so
that code generators can do something with it. Generate stub
output with tgt-stub, and generate the proper vvp run time to
make simple enumerations work from end to end.
SystemVerilog allows variables to be either variables or unresolved
nets, depending on how they are used. If they are assigned by
procedural code, then they are variables. If they are assigned
by a continuous assignment, they are unresolved nets. Note that
they cannot be both, and when they are unresolved nets they can
only be assigned once.
This patch adds the ability to call a system function as a task for
the SystemVerilog generation (-g2009). The return value is really
calculated, but it is ignored.
Added generation flag -g2009 which enables support for 1800-2009
constructs. Added related support such as "1800-2009" in the
`begin_keywords directive.
Keeps 2005 as the default generation for now.
Removed the -gsytem-verilog flag and folded the 1800-2005 stuff into
1800-2009. The rationale behind this is we have so little of
1800-2005 actually implemented that it does not make sense to
distinguish between 1800-2005 and 1800-2009 SystemVerilog extensions,
so we just count them all as the new 1800-2009 Verilog language.
Creation of implicit nets requires knowledge of whether an identifier
has been declared before it is used. Currently implicit nets are
created during elaboration, but by this stage the order of declaration
and use is not known. This patch moves the creation of implicit nets
into the parser stage.
This patch adds two new warning classes that can be enabled or
disabled via the -W command line option. The first controls
whether a warning is generated if a part select within an
always @* statement causes the entire vector to be added to
the implicit sensitivity list. The second controls whether a
warning is generated if a word select within an always @*
statement causes the entire array to be added to the implicit
sensitivity list. The first class is not automatically enabled
by -Wall, the second class is.
This patch adds support for a -Wselect-range warning class to the
driver and ivl programs. This is part of -Wall. The actual checks
will be added in a later patch.
This patch modifies the original SystemVerilog timeunit/timeprecision
patch in the following way:
Removed trailing space.
Reworked some code to use standard spacing rules.
Added some comments.
Combined some code.
Major rework of local/global timeunit/timeprecision logic.
Major rework of timeunit/timeprecision declaration/check code.
This was needed to remove the shift/reduce warnings.
Add a number of checks for invalid combinations.
This patch cleans up some unneeded code. Releases some allocated
memory before the compiler quits and fixes a couple minor memory
leaks in the compiler and vvp code generator.
This patch adds -g2001-noconfig command line flag. The compiler
already supported this with `begin_keywords. Document this in
the manual page and fix a few other issues.
Fix endgenerate to be a 2001 keyword and add a few missing
keywords at the appropriate standard level e.g.(unsigned).
Add uwire and deprecate wone. wone used to just convert without
a warning to a wire. uwire will display a warning that it is
being converted to a wire without a check. wone is converted to
a uwire with a warning and then prints the uwire message. The
uwire message will be replaced with a real check fairly soon.
This patch adds support for recursive module loops if the
loop contains a generate block. The assumption is that the
user is doing the right thing in the generate block to make
the loop terminate. For this case there is also a check
that limits the number of loops (default 10). This prevents
the system from crashing when the user did not correctly
terminate the looping structure. The limit can be changed
by the user if needed.
When a pin array is virtual, dll_target::signal() doesn't need
to make a corresponding set of stub nexa.
This patch includes new detection of oversized arrays, configurable
with the ARRAY_SIZE_LIMIT flag. This limit only applies to devirtualized
arrays; virtual arrays are only limited by your architecture's
unsigned int type.
The concept and earlier versions of this patch have been successfully
stress-tested by multiple people. This one causes no testsuite
regressions on my machine.
Closes: pr2023076
Reduces resource usage when compiling large memories.
Normal usage patterns still create large nexus arrays
in t-dll.cc:dll_target::signal().
This patch is extensively tested; it shouldn't break anything.
The existing debug "optimizer" flag is (ab)used to control
message printing when large (>1000 element) arrays are
devirtualized or nexus-ized.
The new global variable disable_virtual_pins is available
to force allocation of Pin arrays when they are declared,
but no user interface is provided.
See extensive discussion on iverilog-devel, March 4-5 2009,
title "pr2023076: large memories".
Functions that appear in continuous assignment expressions and that
have hidden dependencies or side effects need to be re-evaluated
whenever any input to the expression changes. This patch adds support
in the compiler and vvp runtime to enable this. This is currently
activated for any system function call that has no arguments. The
user may also force it to be used for any user function by passing
the option -gstrict-ca-eval to the compiler driver.
This patch also removes the -dautomatic option which was used for
gaining confidence in the code that supports automatic tasks and
functions. It is believed that the testsuite provides reasonable
fault coverage, and further tests can be added if bugs are found.
This fixes up the elaboration of binary expressions found in
parameter expressions. Parameter expressions are special because
they elaborate early, before all the other parameters are necessarily
completed.
This patch splits any VVP net functor that needs to access both
statically and automatically allocated state into two sub-classes,
one for handling operations on statically allocated state, the
other for handling operations on automatically allocated state.
This undoes the increase in run-time memory use introduced when
automatic task/function support was first introduced.
This patch also fixes various issues with event handling in automatic
scopes. Event expressions in automatic scopes may now reference either
statically or automatically allocated variables or arrays, or part
selects or word selects thereof. More complex expressions (e.g.
containing arithmetic or logical operators, function calls, etc.) are
not currently supported.
This patch introduces some error checking for language constructs
that may not reference automatically allocated variables. Further
error checking will follow in a subsequent patch.
IEEE1364 has specific names for the various generations of Verilog that
are supported. Icarus Verilog should stick to those names for selection
the language feature set.
In the process, the extensions that were tied to the 2x generations
are pulled out out and given their own enable flags. The makes all the
feature control more regular and understandable.
Add the -gverilog-ams flag to the driver, and the begin_keywords support
for VAMS-2.3 keywords. With this, the infrastructure is in place to
start pulling in features from Verilog-AMS.
The begin_keywords directive allows the source code to select keyword
subsets so that a bit of code that uses identifiers that class with a
newer version of the standard can still be compiled.
This patch adds check to determine if an always block has delay
in it or not. If there is no delay a runtime infinite loop will
occur. For the indeterminate case it will print a warning message
if the new -Winfloop flag is given. This flag is not part of the
-Wall check!
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