From 4bb3c55f0657ff7737045cd993ac03b41f3a7a8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kamil Danecki <kdanecki@internships.antmicro.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:43:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Only apply to IO nodes

Signed-off-by: Kamil Danecki <kdanecki@internships.antmicro.com>
---
 src/V3Begin.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/V3Begin.cpp b/src/V3Begin.cpp
index c8052c5e4..06fa88fbe 100644
--- a/src/V3Begin.cpp
+++ b/src/V3Begin.cpp
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ class BeginVisitor final : public VNVisitor {
             // UINFO(0, "TASK IS STATIC " << m_ftaskp->lifetime().isStatic());
             const std::string newName
                 = m_ftaskp->name() + "__Vstatic__" + dot(m_unnamedScope, nodep->name());
-            if (m_ftaskp->lifetime().isStatic()) {
+            if (m_ftaskp->lifetime().isStatic() && nodep->isIO()) {
                 AstVar* keepAsPort = nodep->cloneTreePure(false);
                 nodep->replaceWith(keepAsPort);
                 m_statep->userMarkChanged(keepAsPort);