The 'act' region used to have 2 trigger vectors ('act' and 'pre'), now
it uses a single "extended" trigger vector where the top bits are what
used to be the used bits in the 'pre' trigger vector. Please see the
description above `TriggerKit`. Also move the extra triggers from the
low end to the high end in the trigger vectors.
Removed the VlTriggerVec type, and refactored to use an unpacked array
of 64-bit words instead. This means the trigger vector and its
operations are now the same as for any other unpacked array. The few
special functions required for operating on a trigger vector are now
generated in V3SchedTrigger as regular AstCFunc if needed.
No functional change intended, performance should be the same.
Instead of using the number of processors in the host, use the number of
processors available to the process, respecting cpu affinity
assignments. Without pthreads, fall back and use the number of
processors in the host as before.
This is now applied everywhere so runing `nuamctl -C 0-3 verilator` or
`numactl -C 0-3 Vsim` should behave as if the host has 4 cores (e.g.
like in CI jobs)
Used to fail with "can't use --exe with --lib-create", and we didn't
have any tests for it before. (The equivalent --main --exe --build
--timing works)
Accessing the ports of hier_block instances directly under the current
hier_block (or top level) work just fine (the heir stub .sv has them),
and this can simplify hooking up dotted references into hier blocks:
push part of the reference under the hier block into the hier block, and
wire it to a port, then resolve the rest of the reference to the port of
the instance.
Internals: Refactor AstNodeBlock representation (#6280)
AstNodeBlock now has 2 child lists: 'declsp' to hold declarations within
the block, and 'stmtsp' to hold the procedural statements.
AstBegin is then just a simple subtype of AstNodeBlock.
AstFork is a proper superset of AstNodeBlock (and also AstBegin), and
adds 'forksp' which hold the parallel statements. Having the sequential
'stmtsp' in AstFork is required to properly implement variable
initializers in fork blocks (IEEE 1800-2023 9.3.2), this makes that
clear, while also separating the non AstNodeStmt declarations
(for #6280). The actual fork branches in 'AstFork::forkps()' are all
AstBegin nodes. This is required as lowering stages will introduce
additional statements in each parallel branch. (We used to wrap AstFork
statements into AstBegin in 3 different places, now they always are
AstBegin and this is enforced via the type checker/V3Broken).
Also fixes incorrect disabling of forked processes from within the `fork`.
- Delete 'finalsp'. It was used in one place, basically unnecessary and
safe to remove.
- Make 'argsp' a 'List[AstVar]'. This held before. It holds the function
argument and return variables.
- Replace 'intitsp' with 'varsp' and make it into 'List[AstVar]' to hold
the function local variables. This was most of its use before. The few
places we inserted statements here now moved into 'stmtsp' by
inserting at the front of the list.
Artur Bieniek
Krzysztof Bieganski
Geza Lore
Wilson Snyder
Paul Swirhun
Todd Strader
Igor Zaworski
Christian Hecken
Ryszard Rozak
Matt Stroud