V3Premit extracts wide sub-expressions via temporaries, which is needed
for emitting wide operations to C++ (calls to `VL_*_W`). The previous
version used to extract both branches of an AstCond unconditionally,
meaning both branches were fully evaluated. Rewriting the AstCond into
an AstIf instead enables evaluating only the required branch. While
this does limit V3Subst, overall the resulting code is ~3% faster,
and contains ~25% fewer branches on a large design.
* Fix wrong false assert in property local variable with cycle-delayed consequent
* factor helper for 100 line cov
* add return, should be 100 line cov now
This was a fudge to work around using VlWide in `if` conditions without
a `_ != 0` check. That check is actually inserted by V3Width (or an
equivalent reduction), so the offending code was only generated
internally. Hopefully fixed the single instance where this really
happened. (If not, C++ will fail to compile with "cannot convert VlWide
to bool in 'if (__HERE__)'" errors, still better than the old version
which used to silently not do the right test due to incorrect implicit
conversions.)
Change WDataInP/WDataOutP to be opaque handles types instead of aliases
to raw pointers. This subsequently eliminates needing an implicit cast
operator in VlWide, which is replaced with implicit constructors of
WDataInP/WDataOutP that can create a handle from a VlWide. This
eliminates some unsafe conversions that the previous implicit cast
operator unintentionally enabled (e.g. #7618). It also eliminates
having to insert ".data()" in various places int he generated code, which
simplifies internals (the only place ".data()" should be needed is in
calls to variadic functions where the expected type of the argument is
not WDataInP/WDataOutP).
The handles otherwise behave like pointers, implementing the minimal
amount of operators required to code the runtime. The handle is still
only a single pointer, and will be passed in registers as before, so
this patch should be performance neutral.
As part of this removed WData, which used to be an alias for EData.
All uses are now either EData*, WDataInP, WDataOutP, or VlWide directly.
Krzysztof Bieganski
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Tracy Narine
Igor Zaworski
Kamil Danecki
Geza Lore
Yilou Wang
Wilson Snyder
Paul Swirhun
Muzaffer Kal
Nick Brereton
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Zubin Jain
Artur Bieniek
Pawel Kojma
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