Use AstAlias instead of AstAssignW in V3Inst port connection lowering,
the same way as V3Inline would do if the instance is inlined. This
closes some of the gap between -finline and -fno-inline behaviour, and
is also required for moving V3Inline post scope, where it could not
create aliases anymore (hence required for future patch to maintain
current behaviour).
This is also a partial fix to #4698 (only when the connected expression
is a plain VarRef)
AstNodeCoverDecl::hier() is relative to the scope the declaration is
emitted from, as V3EmitCImp builds the reported path as 'vlNamep + hierp',
and that is how V3Coverage uses it. V3FsmDetect instead set it to the
absolute scope name, so the instance path was counted twice.
This was masked whenever the owning module was inlined, as the declaration
then ended up in the top scope. With inlining disabled, an FSM in an
instance reported 'top.t.forced_wide_u.t.forced_wide_u'. In the inlined
case it reported 'top.TOP', leaking the internal top wrapper name into
user visible coverage output, rather than plain 'top'.
Each VCMethod now carries a signature describing the access required of
the references passed as arguments to the call. 'r' if the argument is
read, 'w' if it is fully assigned so the old value does not matter, 'm'
if it is modified (or only conditionally assigned), with a trailing '+'
repeating the preceding entry for all remaining arguments. Signatures
are validated at compile time, and V3Broken checks the arguments of
every AstCMethodHard against them.
The incorrect references this found and that are easy to fix are
repaired in this patch. "TODO" marks method that are currently broken or
not yet fit the scheme, these will be fixed in follow up patches.
Also renames SCHED_COMMIT and SCHED_ENQUEUE to NBA_COMMIT and
NBA_ENQUEUE, and remove unused methods.
Geza Lore
Wilson Snyder
Yogish Sekhar
Patrick Creighton
Adam Kostrzewski
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