AstCAwait is only ever uses in statement position, so model it as a
statement. We should never ever have a coroutine that returns a value.
There is no need for it in SV, nor should we rely on it for internals.
Also reworks the fix for V3Life incorrectly constant propagating the
beforeTrig functions (#7072). The property that upsets V3Life is that
a function:
1. Is called from multiple static call sites (multiple AstCCall)
2. Reads model state directly (AstVarRef to non-locals/arguments)
Such function can only be created internally after scheduling (V3Task
throws an unsupported error on a non-inlined function that reads model
state), so added a flag to AstCFunc to mark the dangerous ones for
V3Life.
Remove the large variety of ways raw "text" is represented in the Ast.
Particularly, the only thing that represents a string to be emitted in
the output is AstText.
There are 5 AstNodes that can contain AstText, and V3Emit will throw an
error if an AstText is encountered anywhere else:
- AstCStmt: Internally generated procedural statements involving raw
text.
- AstCStmtUser: This is the old AstUCStmt, renamed so it sorts next to
AstCStmt, as it's largely equivalent. We should never create this
internally unless used to represent user input. It is used for $c,
statements in the input, and for some 'systemc_* blocks.
- AstCExpr: Internally generaged expression involving raw text.
- AstCExprUser: This is the old AstUCFunc, renamed so it sorts next to
AstCExpr. It is largely equivalent, but also has more optimizations
disabled. This should never be created internally, it is only used for
$c expressions in the input.
- AstTextBlock: Use by V3ProtectLib only, to generate the hierarchical
wrappers.
Text "tracking" for indentation is always on for AstCStmt, AstCExpr, and
AstTextBlock, as these are always generated by us, and should always be
well formed.
Tracking is always off for AstCStmtUser and AstCExprUser, as these
contain arbitrary user input that might not be safe to parse for
indentation.
Remove subsequently redundant AstNodeSimpleText and AstNodeText types.
This patch also fixes incorrect indentation in emitted waveform tracing
functions, and makes the output more readable for hier block SV stubs.
With that, all raw text nodes are handled as a proper AstNodeStmt or
AstNodeExpr as required for #6280.
This patch gets rid of over 80% of temporary dynamic memory allocations
(when a malloced node is immediately freed with no other malloc in
between). It also gets rid of over 20% of all calls to malloc.
It's worth ~3% average verilation speed up with tcmalloc, and more
without tcmalloc.
This patch implements #6480. All loop statements are represented using
AstLoop and AstLoopTest.
This necessitates rework of the loop unroller to handle loops of
arbitrary form. To enable this, I have split the old unroller used for
'generate for' statements and moved it into V3Param, and subsequently
rewrote V3Unroll to handle the new representation. V3Unroll can now
unroll more complex loops, including with loop conditions containing
multiple variable references or inlined functions.
Handling the more generic code also requires some restrictions. If a
loop contains any of the following, it cannot be unrolled:
- A timing control that might suspend the loop
- A non-inlined call to a non-pure function
These constructs can change the values of variables in the loop, so are
generally not safe to unroll if they are present. (We could still unroll
if all the variables needed for unrolling are automatic, however we
don't do that right now.)
These restrictions seem ok in the benchmark suite, where the new
unroller can generally unroll many more loops than before.
The typical find/if-not-exists-insert pattern can be achieved with 1
lookup instead of 2 using emplace with a sentinel value. Also maps value
initialize their values when inserted with the [] operator, this is
defined and so there is no need to explicitly insert zeroes for integer
values.
Apart from the representational changes below, this patch renames
AstNodeMath to AstNodeExpr, and AstCMath to AstCExpr.
Now every expression (i.e.: those AstNodes that represent a [possibly
void] value, with value being interpreted in a very general sense) has
AstNodeExpr as a super class. This necessitates the introduction of an
AstStmtExpr, which represents an expression in statement position, e.g :
'foo();' would be represented as AstStmtExpr(AstCCall(foo)). In exchange
we can get rid of isStatement() in AstNodeStmt, which now really always
represent a statement
Peak memory consumption and verilation speed are not measurably changed.
Partial step towards #3420
- Rename `--dump-treei` option to `--dumpi-tree`, which itself is now a
special case of `--dumpi-<tag>` where tag can be a magic word, or a
filename
- Control dumping via static `dump*()` functions, analogous to `debug()`
- Make dumping independent of the value of `debug()` (so dumping always
works even without the debug flag)
- Add separate `--dumpi-graph` for dumping V3Graphs, which is again a
special case of `--dumpi-<tag>`
- Alias `--dump-<tag>` to `--dumpi-<tag> 3` as before
Introduce the @astgen directives parsed by astgen, currently used for
the generation child node (operand) accessors. Please see the updated
internal documentation for details.
Introduce the @astgen directives parsed by astgen, currently used for
the generation child node (operand) accessors. Please see the updated
internal documentation for details.