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.
This goes all the way down to the vvp level, where we create support
for arrays of objects, generate the new code in the -tvvp code
generator, and elaborate the arrays in the first place.
Internally, treat the "$" as a special expression type that takes
as an argument the signal that is being indexed. In the vvp target,
use the $last system function to implement this.
When for example assigning to foo[<x>] within a contitional, and
doing synthesis, we need to create a NetSubstitute device to manage
the l-value bit selects.
Before this patch, WARNING_FLAGS applied to both C and C++,
and WARNING_FLAGS_CXX applied to C++ only.
This patch adds a WARNING_FLAGS_CC that applies to C only.
That change should be generally useful; in particular the C
code is almost ready for -Wstrict-prototypes, which does not
apply to C++.
-Wextra (or -W) used to only apply to C++ via WARNING_FLAGS_CXX.
This patch moves it to WARNING_FLAGS, to apply to both C and C++.
Unfortunately, that triggers a ton of warnings.
For now, cover most of the new warnings up by adding
-Wno-unused -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-type-limits
to WARNING_FLAGS_CC. In the long run, I want to change the C coding
style, and take off these disable-warning flags. But those changes
can dribble in as separate commits; this patch is big enough already.
Actually fix a couple missing-field-initializers in libveriuser/veriusertfs.c.
119 formal void parameters added to keep -Wstrict-prototypes happy.
Process found one real missing prototype in vpi/vcd_priv.h:
EXTERN void vcd_names_delete(struct vcd_names_list_s*tab);
8 such warnings left, all in Tony's code
This generates an EQZ LPM device that carries the case-z-ness to
the code generator.
Also add to the vvp code generator support for the EQZ device so
that the synthesis results can be simulated.
Account for the wildcard devices in the sizer.
" characters in strings must be escaped when the compiler writes a
quoted string to a vvp script. This patch fixes up a few places where
this wasn't being done.
The vvp code generator was optimising away adds and subtracts where one
operand was a constant zero. This is not valid for 4-state arithmetic.
It was also optimising away multiplies by a constant zero - but in this
case getting it wrong and effectively multiplying by 1.
A procedural continuous assignment is supposed to be updated any time
a variable on the RHS changes. Currently this only happens if the RHS
is a simple signal.
Redsign the handling of the return value, including a rework of
the %vpi_func syntax to carry the needed information.
Add a few more arithmetic operator instructions.
This patch fixes some leaks in the object stack when getting various
class properties. With this fix an assert can be added to verify that
the object stack is clean when a thread is exiting.
This allows for syntax like a.b.c where a is a class with member
b, which is a class with member c, and so on. The handling is mostly
for the support of compound objects like classes.
A BUFT is needed to allow a force to override the pull value. This had
already been done for pullup devices, so factor out the common code and
use for both pullup and pulldown.
This includes adding support for returning strings from functions,
adding initializing new darray with array_pattern strings, and
assigning an array_pattern of strings to a preallocated darray.
Also fix up support for initializing array with simple string
expression.
When you have an expression like this (extreme example):
a[idx[1]][idx[2]*4 +: 4] <= #(idx[3]) 4'ha;
where a is a reg array and idx is a reg or net array. The retrieval
of idx[2] was clobbering index register 3, which was set before
evaluating the part offset expression, then used in the %set/av of the
array value. (likewise for idx[1] and idx[3]])
To avoid this issue, this patch adds and uses a new instruction
%ix/mov which simply copies one indexed register to another. When
necessary, expressions are first evaluated into temporary registers to
avoid clobbering, then moved in to place before the %*/av instruction.
When a fork/join contains a task, the task completion may become
confused with the completion of another thread if any of the
threads are embedded in the main thread. So always create threads
for all the fork paths, and joins to match.
For constant bit/part selects, issue a warning if the select is out
of range or an undefined value. In any case, the RHS value should be
discarded, and the actual assignment should be skipped.
For constant word indices, issue a warning if the index is out of
range or an undefined value. In any case, the RHS value should be
discarded, and the actual assignment should be skipped.
Class constructors are the "new" method in a class description.
Elaborate the constructor as an ordinary method, but the only
way to access this method is to implicitly call it. The elaborator
will take the constructor call and generate a naked "new" expression
and implicit constructor method call with the object itself as the
return value.
There was one section of code in the tgt-vvp back end that was using
deprecated functions. This patch fixes that. The functionality is still
missing (force/assign to part of a vector), but the code now compiles
cleanly (no warnings).
Emit the elaborated class methods. Also generate root scopes to
represent the classes in order to hold the methods. These scopes
can also in the future be used to implement static properties.
This provides the ivl_target.h interface for class definitions
and expressions, the vvp code generator support for class objects
and properties, and the vvp run time support. Trivial class objects
now seem to work.
Create stub class objects at the vvp level and generate the code
to invoke that stub. Implement the routines needed to implement
a test for null object references.
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.
Strings, when put into dynamic arrays, are treated as first class
types much line reals. Add the code generator and vvp support for
this situation. Also fix a bug distinguishing between character
selects from strings and select form arrays of strings.
This involves working out the code to get the base type of a select
expression of a darray. Also added the runtime support for darrays
with real value elements.
When sending a string to a system task/function allocate the space needed
to avoid truncating the string vs using a large fixed buffer.
In vvp allocate and use an exactly sized buffer for the MCD print routine if
the fixed buffer is not large enough. Using a fixed buffer keeps normal
printing fast.
To implement the $countdrivers system function, we need to be able to
find all the driver values for a given wire. Currently, if a wire has
has more than four drivers, the compiler builds a resolver tree out
of 4-input nodes to resolve the driven values, and there is no way at
run time to work back from the output node to the original driver
values. This patch moves the implementation of the resolver tree into
a single vvp functor (using a mechanism similar to wide functors to
support more than 4 inputs), thus gathering all the driver values into
a single place.
Implement through the ivl core to the ivl_target.h API.
Also draft implementation of creating and storing arrays
in the vvp runtime and code generator.
When string[x] is an l-value, generate code to implement something
like the string.putc(x, ...) method.
Also handle when string[x] is the argument of a system task. In that
case resort to treating it as a calculated 8-bit vector, because that
is what it is.
This also advances support for string expressions in general.
Handle assignments to string variables in the code generator by
trying to calculate a string expression. This involves the new
string object thread details.
In vvp, create the .var/str variable for representing strings, and
handle strings in the $display system task.
Add to vvp threads the concept of a stack of strings. This is going to
be how complex objects are to me handled in the future: forth-like
operation stacks. Also add the first two instructions to minimally get
strings to work.
In the parser, handle the variable declaration and make it available
to the ivl_target.h code generator. The vvp code generator can use this
information to generate the code for new vvp support.
Stephen Williams
Cary R
Larry Doolittle
Martin Whitaker
Jared Casper
Arun Persaud