__vpiVThrVec4Stack::vpi_get_value_int_ was always treating the thread variable
as unsigned, rather than observing the value of __vpiVThrVec4Stack::signed_flag_.
Not sure why this was done - none of the regression tests broke when I changed
this.
Second try cleaning up cast-alignment problems surrounding need_result_buf().
Clang gave a bunch of warnings like
vvp/vpi_const.cc:196:34: warning: cast from 'char *' to 'p_vpi_vecval' (aka 't_vpi_vecval *') increases required alignment from 1 to 4 [-Wcast-align]
This version is verbose and changes the prototype for need_result_buf().
But it is semantically (c++) correct, and makes need_result_buf() feel like malloc().
Currently, when a variable expression is passed to a system task,
the expression value is stored in thread memory. Values stored
in thread memory cannot safely be passed to $strobe or $monitor,
because the thread memory may get reused or deallocated before
the $strobe or $monitor task actually executes. As a temporary
measure, we just trap this case and terminate with a "sorry"
message. A proper fix would require the expression value to be
calculated at the time the $strobe or $monitor executes, not at
the time it is called.
This will hopefully improve performance slightly, but also this
intended as a model for what to do when I get around to doing the
same thing to other data types.
All the methods that this structure supported are now pulled
into the __vpiHandle class as virtual methods. This includes
the vpi_free_object_ method, which required some extra trickery.
Instead of C-like data structures where the __vpiHandle base is a
leading member, make the __vpiHandle a derived class. Give the base
class a virtual destructor so that dynamic_cast works reliably, and
now pretty much all of the junk for testing if an object really is
of the derived class goes away. Also, problems with casting up to
a vpiHandle become trivial non-issues.
In ivl_alloc.h we redefine malloc(), realloc() and calloc() to have
standard error checking. We don't want to do this for anything that
comes from the standard headers. This specifically doesn't work if
a C++ header files does std::malloc, etc.
Also change to -W instead of -Wextra since that is more portable. I
plan to add a check from -Wextra and use it when available since it
is more descriptive.
This patch changes all the iterator code to use a prefix ++ instead
of postfix since it is more efficient (no need for a temporary). It
is likely that the compiler could optimize this away, but lets make
it efficient from the start.
This patch adds -Wextra to the compilation flags for C++ files in
the vvp and vpi subdirectories. It also fixes all the problems
found while adding -Wextra. This mostly entailed removing some of
the unused arguments, removing the name for others and using the
correct number of initializers.
The functions (malloc, free, etc.) that used to be provided in
malloc.h are now provided in cstdlib for C++ files and stdlib.h for
C files. Since we require a C99 compliant compiler it makes sense
that malloc.h is no longer needed.
This patch also modifies all the C++ files to use the <c...>
version of the standard C header files (e.g. <cstdlib> vs
<stdlib.h>). Some of the files used the C++ version and others did
not. There are still a few other header changes that could be done,
but this takes care of much of it.
The vpi_get_value() function should not crash when called during
the compiletf phase. This patch fixes this by returning 'bx for
any vectors in thread space. It also fixes some other minor things
that my test code uncovered. Most of the other objects work as
expected.
The Cygwin compiler is a bit picky. This patch adds some casts
to remove compilation warnings. In the past I have had warnings
off because of problems with the STL, but for this directory we
may as well squash as many warings as we can. It also does not
recognize that an assert(0) or assert(false) ends a routine so
it complains about no return at end of function or variables
not being defined.
This patch adds code to free most of the memory when vvp
finishes. It also adds valgrind hooks to manage the various
memory pools. The functionality is enabled by passing
--with-valgrind to configure. It requires that the
valgrind/memcheck.h header from a recent version of
valgrind be available. It check for the existence of this
file, but not that it is new enough (version 3.1.3 is known
to not work and version 3.4.0 is known to work).
You can still use valgrind when this option is not given,
but you will have memory that is not released and the
memory pools show as a single block.
With this vvp is 100% clean for many of the tests in the
test suite. There are still a few things that need to be
cleaned up, but it should be much easier to find any real
leaks now.
Enabling this causes a negligible increase in run time and
memory. The memory could be a problem for very large
simulations. The increase in run time is only noticeable on
very short simulations where it should not matter.
Nothing to do with tab width! Eliminates useless
trailing spaces and tabs, and nearly all <space><tab>
pairings. No change to derived files (e.g., .vvp),
non-master files (e.g., lxt2_write.c) or the new tgt-vhdl
directory.
Low priority, simple entropy reduction. Please apply
unless it deletes some steganographic content you want
to keep.
In previous incarnations of the vvp runtime, bit vectors were passed
around as arrays of unsigned char that charried bit4 vectors. That
is no longer used. Remove the last vestiges of that dead code.
Remove dependencies on vvp_bit4_encoding outside of the vvp_net
core types. The table_functor_s class was the worst offfender and
was barely used, so it is now removed completely. There are a few
opcodes in vhtread.cc that also make vvvp_bit4_t encoding
assumptions (and used casts) and those have been fixed. There
were also various VPI interface functions that are fixed.
Martin Whitaker
Cary R
Christian Taedcke
Frederick C. Kurz
Stephen Williams
Larry Doolittle
Arun Persaud