Add flags to enable IEEE1800-2017 and IEEE1800-2023 languages generations
and also support them in the `begin_keywords macro. Since neither defines
new keywords they'll use the same keyword mask as 2012.
Update the driver, compiler, documentation and regression test harness so
-g2017 and -g2023 are recognized as language generation flags.
There are no specific features from these versions added yet, this is just
the necessary infrastructure to allow gating new features from those
generations when they are added later.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
The new option allows parameter, net and events to be used before
declaration. With variants
-gno-strict-net-declaration for nets and events,
-gno-strict-parameter-declaration for parameters.
With `-ggno-strict-parameter-declaration` a warning is issued for
parameter use before declaration. This warning suppressed with
the new class `-Wno-declaration-after-use`, instead of `-Wno-anachronisms`.
The standards requires that parameters must be declared
before they are used. Using -gno-strict-parameter-declaration
will allow using a parameter before declaration, e.g., in a port
declaration, with the parameter declared in the body of the
module. Prior to version 13 this was allowed, so there is a large body
of existing code depending on the pre version 13 behaviour.
It was common practice in the past to just declare a port direction
and declare it as a vector in a subsequent type declaration. Versions
of the standard up to and including 1364-2005 include an example that
does this (e.g. 1364-2005 section 12.3.7). Users may have old or
third-party code that they can't or don't want to modify, so allow
the warning to be suppressed by including it in the anachronisms
category.
When -pfileline=1 is used the queue procedural warnings have file
and line information added to the messages. Also switch the trace
debugging to be off by default.
Also, Add some preliminary missing darray functionality.
A common use case (prior to the introduction of localparam) was to
use macros to define constant values, and to put global constant
values in an include file that gets included by each source file.
This will generate a lot of spurious warnings if we warn about all
redefinitions. Make this new option the default for -Wall.
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.
This was already supported in command files, using the '-v' flag.
'-v' is already in use on the command line, so use '-l' instead,
and make that an alias for '-v' in command files.
This is syntax permitted in 1364-2001 but removed in 1364-2005.
Also update the iverilog man page to document the anachronisms warning
class that warns about use of this feature when a later generation is
selected.
Removed obsolete -m32 and -ivl options from iverilog-vpi man page
and revised description of -mingw option. Also removed duplicate
descriptions of --cflags, --ldflags, and --ldlibs options. Updated
link to main iverilog web page in all man pages.
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.
To be strictly compliant with the standard and compatible with other
EDA tools, unsized numbers should be treated as having a fixed size
(the same size as an integer). The -gstrict-expr-width option is
extended to allow the user to enable this behaviour.
This patch adds support for tracing procedural statement execution in vvp.
This is accomplished by adding a new opcode that is inserted before the
code that represents a procedural statement. These opcodes also trigger
a message whenever time advances. By default these opcodes are not added.
To add them, pass the -pfileline=1 flag to the compiler. In the future we
may add support for turning the debug output on and off once the opcodes
have been added with a system task or from the interactive prompt.