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.
Class constructors are the "new" method in a class description.
Elaborate the constructor as an ordinary method, but the only
way to access this method is to implicitly call it. The elaborator
will take the constructor call and generate a naked "new" expression
and implicit constructor method call with the object itself as the
return value.
Rework lexical support for PACKAGE_IDENTIFIER so that the lexor
can help with package scoped identifiers.
Pform package types and package functions up to elaboration.
This patch adds support for bool/bit vector types on the LHS of
a parameter declaration and ensures implicit casts in parameter
declarations are performed where necessary.
A package can have parameters, but it does not have specparams or
keep the order the parameters are defined. This patch skips these
items if the scope is not a Module.
This was temporarily implemented to just copy definitions to the
local scope, but the better method is to create a PEIdent that has
the package attached to it.
The parser does not distinguish between module and UDP instances, so
a UDP delay is handled by the rules used for parsing module parameter
overrides. Although these rules had been relaxed to accept the case of
a simple decimal value (e.g. #10), they did not allow a simple real
value (e.g. #0.1).
Implement through the ivl core to the ivl_target.h API.
Also draft implementation of creating and storing arrays
in the vvp runtime and code generator.
In vvp, create the .var/str variable for representing strings, and
handle strings in the $display system task.
Add to vvp threads the concept of a stack of strings. This is going to
be how complex objects are to me handled in the future: forth-like
operation stacks. Also add the first two instructions to minimally get
strings to work.
In the parser, handle the variable declaration and make it available
to the ivl_target.h code generator. The vvp code generator can use this
information to generate the code for new vvp support.
The parser had been changed to support null statements in sequential
and parallel blocks (a feature introduced in SystemVerilog), but was
not supported in elaboration, leading to a compiler crash. This patch
fixes this by discarding the null statements during parsing.
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.
Stephen Williams
Cary R
Martin Whitaker
Arun Persaud