Unsized expressions can expand to extremely large widths. Usually this
is actually a mistake in the source code, but it can lead to the compiler
temporarily using extremely large amounts of memory, or in the worst
case, crashing. This adds a cap on the width of unsized expressions (by
default 65536 bits, but overridable by the user), and causes a warning
message to be output when the cap is reached.
When creating a constant zero for implementing a unary minus operation
using a binary subtraction operator, the constant needs to be to exactly
the expression width.
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.
The compiler was treating case and case item expressions as
self-determined. They should be context-sensitive, just like
the operands of a comparison operation.
IVL_VT_NO_TYPE is now used to signal an untyped LHS in a parameter
declaration. The parser function that handles specparam declarations
needs to do this too. Also, although it should never happen, make
sure we don't set the expression width in a NetECast object to a
negative number. Make constant evaluation of NetECast objects
observe the expression width.
This patch adds support for implicit casts to the elaborate_rval_expr()
function. This will handle the majority of cases where an implicit cast
can occur.
For a LPM constant we need to pass the sign information so that the vlog95
code generator can create the correct constant. Also when using the
sub_net_from() routine the numeric constant should have the same sign as
the signal so that it can also be displayed correctly.
Since the vlog95 code generator needs the strength information we do
not want to hide it behind a concat-Z optimization. For now we abort
the optimization, but in the future we could add parts of this back
in (e.g. all the drivers have matching strength then replace with a
normal concat and a buf-Z if the strength are not both strong. The
original buf-Z should be removed to reduce the number of LPM devices).
If a signal s driven by multiple non-overlapping NetPartSelect(PV)
objects, then combine them into a single NetConcat object. This
eliminates the need for resolvers in the target.
The code that calculated the canonical index for a multi-dimensional
array access did not correctly estimate the index expression width
in the case that the first index value was a constant zero. This
patch fixes the problem, and, in passing, also makes the expression
calculation more efficient if any of the indices are constant zeroes.
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.
This patch extends the compiler to support all specparam declarations
allowed by the 1364-2005 standard. For compatibility with other
simulators, it allows specparam values to be used in any constant
expression, but outputs a warning message and disables run-time
annotation of a specparam if it is used in an expression that must
be evaluated at compile time.
The final step of expression elaboration is to reduce the width of
lossless/unsized constant expressions to the minimum needed to hold
the resulting constant value. This leads to unexpected results if
the user supplies a literal number with redundant digits that gets
passed to a system task that is sensitive to the width (e.g. $display).
This patch prevents width reduction occurring in this case.
This handles a few cases where the non-constant bit selects are
in the final index. This doesn't handle all the cases of packed
arrays, but it handles some common cases.
If a constant is padded the original constant will be freed and replaced
with a new one. This results in the ce pointer pointing to freed memory.
In reality the second check only needs to be done if the first one is
false so avoid the whole issue by only performing the second check if
the first on is false.
This patch adds support for increment/decrement operators as an
expression. The operations on real and vector slices have been
disabled for now.
These operators can be used as in independent statements. However, the
corresponding support is not added in parser.
Changes since V2:
- Additional error checking in elaboration to deny operation on vector
slices and real (suggested by Martin)
Changes since V1:
- Use 'i' and 'I' for increment (suggested by Cary)
- Evaluate sub-expression once (suggested by Cary and Stev)
- Add necessary checks during elaboration to ensure that the
expression is valid (suggested Stev)
- Proper width handling with vectors (suggested by Martin)
Signed-off-by: Prasad Joshi <prasad@canopusconsultancy.com>
This patch changes the method used to signal that a constant expression
is being elaborated from flags stored in global variables to flags
passed down the call chain. It also generates more informative error
messages when variable references are found in a constant expression.
During elaboration, it is sometimes efficient to collapse a
collections of PV drivers to a net to a single concatenation.
This removes a bunch of resolutions and other nodes, and also
is the only way that 2-value logic should work.
This patch adds a check on the expression type before adjusting an
unsized expression width up to integer_width. This adjustment should
only be performed for vectorable expressions.
The patch also fixes a few compiler warnings that only show up on
32-bit builds.
This patch fixes a bunch of objects to have the correct file/line
information. It also adds support for getting file/line information
for events (named events have a definition line).
Stephen Williams
Martin Whitaker
Larry Doolittle
Cary R
Arun Persaud
Martin Whitaker
Prasad Joshi