some problems stemming from comparing a case-sensitive netlist
against a case-insensitive one. Verilog netlist reading does
not yet have support for macros other than "`include", and it
does not yet have support for bit vectors constructed with
braces ({}).
as failing on certain compilers. This undoubtedly reflects some
change in gcc or the OS setup, but since modern compilers should
be able to figure out for themselves when to inline a subroutine
(or not), the inline hint is somewhat arcane and unnecessary.