If a function in a continuous assignment is passed an array word as
an argument, syntactically incorrect vvp code is generated. This is
because the code calls draw_net_input to generate the input labels
part way through writing out the .ufunc statement. If an input is
an array word, draw_net_input causes a .array/port statement to be
emitted, which gets written out in the middle of the .ufunc statement.
This patch fixes the problem by collecting the necessary input labels
prior to starting writing the .ufunc statement.
The .delay (x,y,z) functor and the get_number_immediate() function
only supports 32 bit delay values. This patch adds an error message
if the user passes a larger, but valid value.
- Add missing dependency of configure on aclocal.m4.
- Remove config stamp files in make distclean (and fix another for
loop in base make distclean that I missed)
- Add stamp files to .gitignore
Use the time stamp file technique recommended by the autoconf manual
to prevent unneccesary rebuilds because of an unchanged config.h.
Uses the automake trick of generating the stamp files in the
_AC_AM_CONFIG_HEADER_HOOK macro instead of littering the source
directory with stamp-h.in files.
Add an extra ./config.status run after ./config.status --recheck
because with --recheck it doesn't actually try to remake the generated
files (and thus doesn't make the timestamp files). Thus without the
extra run, each stamp-*-h target would need to independently run
./config.status to make sure it wasn't changed by the configuration
change.
An orthogonal fix of how config.status is called in subdirectories.
When in a subdirectory and config.status is called with
../config.status and $(srcdir) is a relative path, config.status gets
confused. Fixed by replacing '../config.status --file=Makefile.in'
with 'cd ..; ./config.status --file=<dir>/Makefile.in'
Even open nets have a driver for HiZ. The BUFZ is needed as something
to hang .net objects. This is another step closer to not needing the
"create_constant_node" hack in vvp/words.cc.
In the olden days, the .alias was necessary to create a net name
that is an alias to an existing net in the netlist. But now that
the .net no longer creates a node in the netlist, ALL .net objects
are aliases of a sort, so this (mis)feature gets in the way.
The tranif input pins are normally nothing special, but sometimes
they are fed back from the switch body. In this case, the control
needs to see the current *output* from the fed back port, in order
to get the results that people expect.
Control inputs (i.e. the control input to tranif switches)
are not driven in any way by the island, so use .import records
instead of .port records to bring them into the island. Properly
handle the now potentially different bindings within the island
and outside the island. This means the draw_net_input_x function
is a little more sophisticated, and the node data more complex.
Local nets that have no (zero) drivers are dead weight. Since
they have no drivers, they are not being used anywhere. Since
they are local, they are not force-able.
This doesn't have any significant runtime consequence other then
to create a functor that is otherwise stable. But this does connect
to .net nodes more naturally, and gets me a step closer to banning
Cx<> labels as arguments to .net records.
If a signed signal is driving a part select in a CA and the width
is less than 32 bits. the value will be zero extended and will
not work for negative values. This patch adds a warning that this
could happen. This will be fixed in development.
This patch adds an optimization when a constant indexed part
select covers the entire L-value. It also fixes a few issues
in the code generator related to part selects.
In auto scopes, nets cannot work and probably are are artifact of
elaboration. So elide local nets in auto scopes.
Also, get net inputs from the inputs of nets. This is a step
towards eliminating the label on nets altogether.
This patch adds file and line number information to named events.
It also modifies the draw_eval_expr_wid() routine to fail with
an appropriate message for named events. This checking needs to
be pushed into the elaboration stage, but this will give a better
message than we had before.
It was documented that a IVL_LPM_CONCAT would use _size() instead
of _selects(). This patch adds the functionality to _size() and
converts all the Icarus provided code generators to use _size().
_select() will be kept for compatibility in V0.9.
This patch is a major rewrite of the indexed part selects (+: and -:).
It made the following enhancements:
1. Make indexed part selects work correctly with both big and little
endian vectors.
2. Add a warning flag that warns about constant out of bounds/or 'bx
indexed selects.
3. Moved the -: parameter code to its own routine.
4. Added support for straddling before part selects in a CA.
5. Added more assert(! number_is_unknown) statements.
6. Add warning for &PV<> select with a signed index signal that is
less than the width of an int. This will be fixed later.
7. Add support for loading a 'bx/'bz constant into a numeric register.
8. Add a number of signed value fixes to the compiler/code generator.
9. Major fix of draw_select_expr() in the code generator.
A while ago we changed how variable arrays were accessed. This change
did not get propagated to the non-blocking assignment for real array
words. This patch adds a warning that this is not currently supported.
We can add this to development, but not V0.9 (interface change).
This patch evaluates the whole concatenation expression and
makes the concatenation padding sign aware. This is needed
when $signed({...}) is passed as an argument.
A repetition is just N copies of the base expression not N
evaluations of the base expression. This is only a problem
when functions have side effects. It's also faster to copy.
The evaluation must also be done when the replication count
is zero (see 1364-2005).
This was incorrectly using the expression sign not checking if
the two sub-expressions are both signed. This likely used to
work, but in the context of $signed which sets the expression
to signed so we can have a signed expression without both
sub-expressions being signed.
When processing procedural real expressions we need to evaluate
non-real sub-expressions as bit based expressions and then
convert the result to a real value. This is particularly import
for integer division.
This patch cleans up some unneeded code. Releases some allocated
memory before the compiler quits and fixes a couple minor memory
leaks in the compiler and vvp code generator.
This patch adds real functionality for `celldefine and pushes this
property to the run time which can access this with vpiCellInstance.
This is technically only available for a module, but all scopes
have the property and only modules should return true when the
'endmodule' is between a `celldefine and `endcelldefine directive.
This patch fixes the code generator to correctly create three value
constant delays. It also fixes a bug in the compiler related to the
precalculation of the high-Z delay when only two delays are given.
Previously if was using a pointer not a value comparison to find
the minimum value.
Variable delays should work when one or three values are given.
For the two value case we need to do a comparison at run time and
that will require changing the compiler/run time interface so that
can only go into the V0.10 branch. This patch can be applied to
both development and V0.9. I have added a sorry message and an
assert for this case. I will add the variable two delay case at a
later time. We also do not support mixing constant and variable
delays on a single statement. That is a much bigger change and
can wait until someone asks for it.
The previous code looked for more than one array word to determine
if the given signal was an array or not. The problem with this is
that a single word memory was considered a signal. This is fixed
here by looking for an array_dimension to be greater than zero.
This is mostly a minor definition change in the parsing of literal
numbers by the vvp lexor. Allow for 64bit numbers in the .delay
records, and have the code generator also able to cope with the
situation.
Previously Icarus normalized the results so array [7:0] would
be the same as array [0:7]. This works just fine for
simulation, but the VPI calls can select the left or right
value and this was incorrect for the [7:0] case since it was
being normalized to [0:7]. This patch swaps the two values in
the a.out file and from this creates the previous first/last
values and a new flag that can be used to get the correct
left and right values for the VPI interface.
This patch adds support for 64 bit non-blocking delays in procedural
code. We fixed the procedural delay operator (blocking delays) earlier.
This patch mostly mimics what was done there. The continuous assignment
delay operator still needs to be fixed.
The newer mkinstalldirs can handle paths that have spaces in them.
While I'm at it, I also updated the Makefiles so that installation
can also work to DESTDIR directories that have spaces.
For most cases just using the value of a parameter is fine, but
a vpi call can access more than the value so we want to use a
parameter reference instead of the value for vpi calls.
Strings were working correctly, integer values need some minor
code generator changes and real values needed to be pushed from
elaboration to the code generators. I also changed the default
real value comment from %g to %#g so that it is more obvious
that the value is a real value.
By not creating Nexus objects until necessary, we avoid creating a
lot of spurious objects. In fact, it is true that almost every
link that is created and connected to another link will create a
spurious Nexus object without this patch.
Rather then spread VERSION= defines throughout all the makefiles, put
the base version in version_base.in. Use that to generate a version.h
that includes the base version as well as the detailed version.
This reverts commit 31d67fcd3e.
The concensus has been that this causes too many build problems in
the general case and what is needed instead is a way to turn on the
extra warnings for developers only.
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.
The code base is almost shadow-free now, so this won't add much noise to the compiles.
Problems I know about:
lxt{,2}_write.c: patch sent upstream
cflexor.c: exposes gray area of name space boundary
Martin Whitaker
Cary R
Jared Casper
Stephen Williams
Larry Doolittle
Martin Whitaker