Functions that appear in continuous assignment expressions and that
have hidden dependencies or side effects need to be re-evaluated
whenever any input to the expression changes. This patch adds support
in the compiler and vvp runtime to enable this. This is currently
activated for any system function call that has no arguments. The
user may also force it to be used for any user function by passing
the option -gstrict-ca-eval to the compiler driver.
This patch also removes the -dautomatic option which was used for
gaining confidence in the code that supports automatic tasks and
functions. It is believed that the testsuite provides reasonable
fault coverage, and further tests can be added if bugs are found.
This patch schedules the input value change to .sfuns calls to avoid
potential recursion problems. It also cleans up two put_value calls
that did unneeded loops when putting VectorVals and the width was
greaten than 32 bits.
Cary R
Arun Persaud
Stephen Williams
Martin Whitaker
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