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.
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.
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
Pawel Szostek