It is allowed to access a constant declared in a class scope, such as a
enum value or parameter, on an object of that class type. This is described
in section 8.5 ("Object properties and object parameter data") of the LRM
(1800-2017).
E.g.
```
class C
enum { A } e;
endclass
C c = new;
c.e = c.A;
```
Support this by in addition of searching for class properties on the object
also search for constants in the class scope.
A bit of refactoring is needed around the parameter elaboration functions
since they expect a non-const NetScope, but for classes we only have a
const scope available.
The non-const scope is needed to be able to mark specparams as
non-annotatable. Since classes can't have specparams this part is factored
out into a separate function the NetScope parameter for the shared
functions is made const.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
This adds the runtime support for class properties that are classes
to be arrayed. Add a means to define the dimensions of a property
in the vvp format, and add functions for setting/extracting elements
of a property.
We need the scope where the class is defined so that it can find
types in that containing scope. Note that most definitions cannot
escape into the the lexical scope of the class, but some can.
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.
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.
This provides the ivl_target.h interface for class definitions
and expressions, the vvp code generator support for class objects
and properties, and the vvp run time support. Trivial class objects
now seem to work.
Add properties to the classes, and elaborate expressions that
have class properties. Describe class object property references
all the way down to the stub target.
Lars-Peter Clausen
Martin Whitaker
Stephen Williams
Cary R