`std::vector<netrange_t>` is used for signal array dimensions. As such it is
used in quite a few places.
Add a typedef that can be used as a shorthand to refer to it. This helps to
keep lines where this is used from growing to overly long.
The new type is called `netranges_t`.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Currently there is no error checking for continuous assignments to unpacked
arrays. If the lvalue and rvalue net are not compatible undefined behavior
occurs. For some types of incompatibility it will crash during elaboration,
for others it will crash during simulation, and for some it will just work,
even though the assignment is not allowed by the standard.
Implement checking to ensure the two nets are compatible as required by the
standard and report an error otherwise.
Two arrays are considered to be compatible if their element types are
equivalent, they have the same number of ranges and each range has the same
number of elements.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
SystemVerilog defines different levels of type compatibility.
* Matching
* Equivalent
* Assignment compatible
* Cast compatible
At the moment the `nettype_t` has only one type compatibility test. It is
used to check assignment compatibility when assigning to a dynamic array,
queue or class.
The current implementation rejects a few cases that should allowed and
allows a few cases that should be rejected.
Dynamic arrays and queues are assignment compatible if their element types
are compatible. And two packed types are equivalent if they are both
2-state or 4-state, both signed or unsigned and have the same packed with.
In the current implementation the sign is not considered and instead of
checking if the packed width is the same it checks that the dimensions are
identical.
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.
Cary R
Lars-Peter Clausen
Stephen Williams