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.
These are all genuine bugs, brief descriptions.
1. V3OrderCFuncEmitter.h used to delete a node early that was still
reference in a graph dump later. Not a big deal, it can be deleted
later at the end of V3Order.
2. V3Param.cpp: this one is tricky. The variable referenced by
AstVarXRef was deleted at the end of `visit(AstGenCase*)`, but then
`visit(AstVarXRef*)` checks `nodep->varp()` (already deleted) to see
if it's in an interface.
3. V3String::wildMatch is sometimes called with an empty 's' (the string
we are matching against tha pattern 'p'), in which case it used to go
off into the woods. Added check on call. An arbitrary number of `*`
will still match the empty string.
4. V3Task.cpp: There was an error reported for an unsupported construct,
then a subsequent SEGV. Just signal the error upward so we bail on an
error in a more graceful way.
5. verylog.y: Some unsupported constructs failed to set the parsed node,
so some memory thrash made it into some code downstream. Just parse
these into nullptr.
Also increased the timeout on one test, which sometimes tripped with
asan on GCC during heavy host load.
- 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
This patch introduces the concept of 'loose' methods, which semantically
are methods, but are declared as global functions, and are passed an
explicit 'self' pointer. This enables these methods to be declared
outside the class, only when they are needed, therefore removing the
header dependency. The bulk of the emitted model implementation now uses
loose methods.
Wilson Snyder
Geza Lore
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Todd Strader
Anthony Donlon
Kamil Rakoczy
Joseph Nwabueze
Jiacheng Qian
Krzysztof Bieganski