From 0b7d648c6a71594f8a17e78aef8f62b6f6448390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:54:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improve opt_clean handling of unused public wires

Signed-off-by: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
---
 passes/opt/opt_clean.cc | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/passes/opt/opt_clean.cc b/passes/opt/opt_clean.cc
index 5f75288e2..a8a8e0bc7 100644
--- a/passes/opt/opt_clean.cc
+++ b/passes/opt/opt_clean.cc
@@ -326,8 +326,8 @@ bool rmunused_module_signals(RTLIL::Module *module, bool purge_mode, bool verbos
 		if (wire->port_id != 0 || wire->get_bool_attribute("\\keep") || !initval.is_fully_undef()) {
 			// do not delete anything with "keep" or module ports or initialized wires
 		} else
-		if (!purge_mode && check_public_name(wire->name)) {
-			// do not get rid of public names unless in purge mode
+		if (!purge_mode && check_public_name(wire->name) && (raw_used_signals.check_any(s1) || used_signals.check_any(s2) || s1 != s2)) {
+			// do not get rid of public names unless in purge mode or if the wire is entirely unused, not even aliased
 		} else
 		if (!raw_used_signals.check_any(s1)) {
 			// delete wires that aren't used by anything directly