Only output a warning if a package contains dumpable items. This is
mainly to avoid the warning about the $unit scope when a design has
been compiled for a SV generation (issue #710).
The -dumpfile=<path> vvp extended argument sets the default nanme to use
for the various dumpers. If this flag is not given, the default is "dump".
The $dumpfile system task overrides the default or this command line flag.
This commit also factors out all the dumpfile selection code for the various
dumper implementations.
Change cbReadWriteSynch and cbReadOnlySynch to interpret the passed
time value as a relative delay, not an absolute time. This matches
the behaviour of other simulators.
Instead of just translating a generate scope to a named begin/end scope
this patch creates a generate specific scope (vpiScopeGenerate) that is
of the vpiGenScope type. This may not match the standard 100%, but does
allow the FST dumper to denote generate scopes differently than the
other scope types. Most of the VPI code treats a vpiGenScope just like a
named block so only the FST dumper should have different behavior.
snprintf() copies at most N characters, but the string may not be
terminated correctly. This patch uses sizeof() so that the snprintf()
call matches the size of the buffer and adds code to insert a NULL as
the last character of the string.
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.
Results of running
cd vpi
for f in *.c *.h; do sed -i \
-e "s/_calltf(PLI_BYTE8/_calltf(ICARUS_VPI_CONST PLI_BYTE8/" \
-e "s/_compiletf(PLI_BYTE8/_compiletf(ICARUS_VPI_CONST PLI_BYTE8/" $f; done
and a trivial patch to vpi_user.h to, among other things, make
ICARUS_VPI_CONST blank.
Thus, this patch does absolutely nothing. Will be followed by a
(much shorter) patch that makes it do something. :-)
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.
This patch documents that the lxt2/lx2 dumper supports -speed and
-space options. It adds -speed, -space, -space-speed and
-speed-space options for the fst dumper. Here are results for a
gate level back annotated design using the fst dumper.
<none> 12.88 seconds 3.5 Meg dump file.
-space 12.89 seconds 2.9 Meg dump file.
-speed 12.36 seconds 4.6 Meg dump file.
-<both> 12.84 seconds 3.2 Meg dump file.
The lxt2 routine was referencing the lxt not the lxt2 versions
of the space/speed flags. This also adds the lx2 version of the
flags. These were already supported in the sys_table.c file.
vpi_config.h defines _FILE_OFFSET_BITS. This must be defined before
any system includes files are processed, so vpi_config.h must be
called first. This patch puts vpi_config.h first. It also removes
direct calls for both vpi_config.h and vpi_user.h when sys_priv.h
is included since it already includes these two files.
It also updates the code to always include vpi_user.h using double
quotes.
Some new shadow issues have crept in. This patch fixes these new
issues and adds -Wshadow to the normal warning flags to keep any
new occurrences from happening.
This patch fixes two places where Icarus under certain conditions
would try to free a NULL iterator value in $dumpvars(). $dumpvars()
can have a NULL argument to indicate that all variables should be
dumped. Under two error conditions the code was trying to free
this NULL argument reference.
The standard does not define if vpi_free_object() can support a
NULL reference. Icarus does not currently allow it (it asserts).
This patch adds support for iterating over the list of vpiUserSystf
tasks/functions that have vpiUserDefn set. The vpiUserDefn property
is true by default, but you can call vpip_make_systf_system_defined()
to set this property false (will hide the vpiUserSystf object). All
the normal system tasks/functions have been modified to call this
procedure to remove them from the list of vpiUserSystf objects. Only
user defined system tasks or functions should appear in the list.
vpi_compare_objects() is just a simple are the two pointers the
same. This works correctly for the vpiUserSystf objects, but the
other handle objects have not been checked.
The zero element was already returned so it can not be reused a
second time. This was crashing when things went off the end of
the list since the do all functor was off by one.
In a typical debug simulation run, a user tracing all the signals
in the simulation may wind up creating millions of these. Rework
the vcd_info structure to be more compact and possibly faster to
scan.
The time change is usually a trivial operation, so instead carry
a timestamp on all the work items and let the work thread decide
on its own when to do a SET_TIME operation. This reduces some
pthread overhead and thus gets us some better performance.
This patch updated the four file lxt_write.{c,h} and
lxt2_write.{c,h} to the latest ones from GTKWave. This
required adding the wavealloc.h include file and an
update to configure.in and vpi/vpi_config.h.in to add
checks/definitions for ALLOCA and FSEEKO.
The LXT2 writer allows for splitting the output file into multiple
output files. The size of that output file was fixed, but needs to
be controlled by an environment variable.
This patch removes some of the unneeded differences in the
various dumper routines. This is the start of a complete
refactoring, but the first task is to make them as common
as possible and this is the start of that.
When dumping an array word the name is implicitly converted to
an escaped identifier. If this implicit name conflicts with an
explicitly created escaped identifier this patch will print a
warning message warning that the array word will conflict with
an escaped identifier.
Dumping array words is an enhancement that we have added to Icarus.
The problem was that if you wanted to dump the whole array you would
like to use a for loop as follows:
for (lp = 0; lp < max ; lp = lp + 1) $dumpvars(0, array[lp]);
This used to work, but some of the VPI rework broke it because it
counted on the word select to be constant. This patch restores the
functionality by converting the variable word select into a constant
word select in the calltf routine. This is done without warning and
only for the $dumpvars() routine.
Adding this functionality necessitated adding support for vpiIndex
to the &A<> routines.
This patch adds compilef routines for the readmemb/h and
writememb/h system tasks. It also fixes some errors related
to arrays with negative range values. You can not specify a
negative address in the file, but arrays with negative range
values or negative start/finish argument to the tasks are
supported. It also generates an error when reading invalid
character from the input file.
A significant amount of the code is common between the two
styles of tasks so this has been grouped into common
routines.
It also adds a common routine for getting a string that will
be used as a file name. This routine is used by any task
that requires a file name value. If a filename has a
non-printable character it will be displayed as a \octal
constant to show what the character is.
Updates the dumping routines to match each other better,
improves some error messages and fixes a bug in the LXT2
dumper when dumping greater than 32 bit delays.
Continue cleaning up shadowed variables, flagged by turning on -Wshadow.
No intended change in functionality. Patch looks right, and is tested
to compile and run on my machine. No regressions in test suite.
This patch set covers C code, with the notable exception of
vpi/lxt_write{,2}.c.
This patch addresses a number of issues:
Rewrote the $test$plusargs and $value$plusargs routines to have
better error/warning messages, to support runtime strings, to
correctly load bit based values (truncating, padding, negative
value), added support for the real formats using strtod() and
added "x/X" as an alias for "h/H" to match the other part of
Icarus.
Rewrite the vpip_{bin,oct,hex}_str_to_vec4 routines to ignore
embedded "_" characters. Add support for a negative value and
set the entire value to 'bx if an invalid digit is found. A
warning is printed for this case.
Rewrite vpip_dec_str_to_vec4 to ignore embedded "_" characters,
to support a single "x" or "z" constant and to return 'bx if an
invalid digit is found. A warning is printed for this case.
It simplifies the system task/functions error/warning messages.
It removes the signed flag for the bin and dec string conversions.
This was not being used (was always false) and the new negative
value support makes this obsolete.
Add support for a real variable to handle Bin, Oct, Dec and Hex
strings. They are converted into a vvp_vector4_t which is then
converted to a real value.
Add support for setting a bit based value using a real value.
Removed an unneeded rfp signal in vpip_make_reg()
This patch splits any VVP net functor that needs to access both
statically and automatically allocated state into two sub-classes,
one for handling operations on statically allocated state, the
other for handling operations on automatically allocated state.
This undoes the increase in run-time memory use introduced when
automatic task/function support was first introduced.
This patch also fixes various issues with event handling in automatic
scopes. Event expressions in automatic scopes may now reference either
statically or automatically allocated variables or arrays, or part
selects or word selects thereof. More complex expressions (e.g.
containing arithmetic or logical operators, function calls, etc.) are
not currently supported.
This patch introduces some error checking for language constructs
that may not reference automatically allocated variables. Further
error checking will follow in a subsequent patch.
This is a major rework on the sys_fileio routines. They now have
improved compiletf routines and the calltf routines are now
standardized. Along the way a few bug were fixed as well. Some
updates to other vpi files as well.
I changed the order of the $fputc() arguments to match C and the
rest of the system functions like it ($fungetc, etc.). I recently
fixed $fungetc() so I'm assuming the $fputc() needs the same fix.
It's an Icarus specific function.
This patch cleans up some of the code to use common compiletf
routines where appropriate. It also adds code to print the
number of extra arguments and cleans up the messages a bit.
This patch cleans up the dump routines and adds file and
line number information for errors. It also adds some of
the missing MemoryWord properties so they can now be
dumped and monitored correctly.
This patch fixes the calculation of the scope type in draw_scope.
This code is really only used in the VCD dumper so I commented it
out in the other two. The problem was that the lower scope was
used to calculate the scope type. It is also now an error to try
to draw an invalid scope type.
This patch fixes a number of problems associated with the various dumpers.
1. It catches the problem uncovered in pr1809904 and prevents the core
dumps from happening. It prints a warning message if you try to change
the file after the program has started dumping data to the file.
2. It makes all the dumpers work in the same manner. Before the VCD
$dumpfile was processed at compile time, but the LXT/LXT2 versions
did this at run time. The correct place for this is the run time so
that you can pass the task a calculated name.
3. All the dumpers use common compiletf routines located in vcd_priv.c
4. Make the LXT/LXT2 $dumpfile commands only get the file name and
let $dumpvars actually open the file. This matches the VCD code.
5. Fix the $dumpfile code to allow calculated file names.
6. Make dumpvars without a scope/variable match all toplevel modules
not just the toplevel module the $dumpvars was located in. This
now matches the standard (2001).
7. Simplify the no dumper code (vcdoff.c) and add missing functions.
8. Cleanup the code and messages.
9. vvp can take -none for no dumper.
Cary R
Martin Whitaker
Stephen Williams
Larry Doolittle
Arun Persaud
Martin Whitaker