The workflow of debugging fatal pass errors in Yosys is flawed in
three ways:
1. Running Yosys under a debugger is sufficient for the debugger
to catch some fatal errors (segfaults, aborts, STL exceptions)
but not others (`log_error()`, `log_cmd_error()`). This is
neither obvious nor easy to remember.
2. To catch Yosys-specific fatal errors, it is necessary to set
a breakpoint at `logv_error_with_prefix()`, or at least,
`logv_error()`. This is neither obvious nor easy to remember,
and GDB's autocomplete takes many seconds to suggest function
names due to the large amount of symbols in Yosys.
3. If a breakpoint is not set and Yosys encounters with such
a fatal error, the process terminates. When debugging a crash
that takes a long time to reproduce (or a nondeterministic crash)
this can waste a significant amount of time.
To solve this problem, add a macro `YS_DEBUGTRAP` that acts as a hard
breakpoint (if available), and a macro `YS_DEBUGTRAP_IF_DEBUGGING`
that acts as a hard breakpoint only if debugger is present.
Then, use `YS_DEBUGTRAP_IF_DEBUGGING` in `logv_error_with_prefix()`
to obviate the need for a breakpoint on nearly every platform.
Co-Authored-By: Alberto Gonzalez <boqwxp@airmail.cc>
(IEEE1800-2017 section 20.11)
This PR allows us to use $info/$warning/$error/$fatal **at elaboration time** within a generate block.
This is very useful to stop a synthesis of a parametrized block when an
illegal combination of parameters is chosen.
The initial list of hits was generated with the codespell command
below, and each hit was evaluated and fixed manually while taking
context into consideration.
DIRS="kernel/ frontends/ backends/ passes/ techlibs/"
DIRS="${DIRS} libs/ezsat/ libs/subcircuit"
codespell $DIRS -S *.o -L upto,iff,thru,synopsys,uint
More hits were found by looking through comments and strings manually.
o Provide log_file_warning() and log_file_error() that prefix the log
message with <filename>:<lineno>: to be easily picked up by IDEs that
need to step through errors.
o Simplify some duplicate logging code in kernel/log.cc
o Use the new log functions in genrtlil.
