Before this commit, `flatten` matched the template objects with
the newly created objects solely by their name. Because of this,
it could be confused by code such as:
module bar();
$dff a();
endmodule
module foo();
bar b();
$dff \b.a ();
endmodule
After this commit, `flatten` avoids every possible case of name
collision.
Fixes#2106.
log_signal can result in a string with spaces (when bit selection is
involved), which breaks the rule of IdString not containing whitespace.
Instead, remove the sigspec from the name entirely — given that the
resulting wire will have no users, it will be removed later anyway,
so its name doesn't really matter.
Fixes#2118
`flatten` cannot derive modules in most cases because that would just
yield processes, and it does not support `-autoproc`; in practice
`flatten` has to be preceded by a call to `hierarchy`, which makes
deriving unnecessary.
After splitting the passes, some options can never be activated,
and most conditions involving them become dead. Remove them, and also
all of the newly dead code.
Although the two passes started out very similar, they diverged over
time and now have little in common. Moreover, `techmap` is extremely
complex while `flatten` does not have to be, and this complexity
interferes with improving `flatten`.
The $div and $mod cells use truncating division semantics (rounding
towards 0), as defined by e.g. Verilog. Another rounding mode, flooring
(rounding towards negative infinity), can be used in e.g. VHDL. The
new $divfloor cell provides this flooring division.
This commit also fixes the handling of $div in opt_expr, which was
previously optimized as if it was $divfloor.
The $div and $mod cells use truncating division semantics (rounding
towards 0), as defined by e.g. Verilog. Another rounding mode, flooring
(rounding towards negative infinity), can be used in e.g. VHDL. The
new $modfloor cell provides this flooring modulo (also known as "remainder"
in several languages, but this name is ambiguous).
This commit also fixes the handling of $mod in opt_expr, which was
previously optimized as if it was $modfloor.
Before this patch, the code passed around std::string objects by
value. It's probably not a hot-spot, but it can't hurt to avoid the
copying.
Removing the copy and clean-up code means the resulting code is ~6.1kb
smaller when compiled with GCC 9.3 and standard settings.
- Pass a string argument by reference
- Avoid multiple calls to IdString::str and IdString::c_str
- Avoid combining checks for size > 0 and first char (C strings are
null terminated, so foo[0] != '\0' implies that foo has positive
length)
