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.
Rewrote V3LifePost to not depend on having AstAssignPre and
AstAssignPost types, but work with generic AstNodeAssign. There is an
extra flag in AstVarScope to denote it's part of an NBA and should be
considered.
Step towards #6280.
No functional change.
This patch is just cleanup with some non-functional changes to enable
the next patch. Most importantly createDlyOnSet, which implements NBAs
for arrays, has a new streamlined implementation that does the same
thing. Some output code is perturbed due to statement/local variable
insertion order.
Also renamed Vdlyvfoo to VdlyFoo for easier readability of the generated
code.
Geza Lore
Yilou Wang
Wilson Snyder
Szymon Gizler
Krzysztof Bieganski