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Support unpacked array function constantization #1578

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veripoolbot opened this issue Oct 31, 2019 · 2 comments
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Support unpacked array function constantization #1578

veripoolbot opened this issue Oct 31, 2019 · 2 comments
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resolution: duplicate Closed; issue or pull request already exists type: feature-IEEE Request to add new feature, described in IEEE 1800

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Author Name: Graham Gobieski
Original Redmine Issue: 1578 from https://www.veripool.org


If I write something like:

module test
	#(parameter 	N=4)
	(input 	logic 	clk, rst_l);

	parameter MASK = mask_val();

	typedef logic mask_t[N];
	function mask_t mask_val();
		for(int i = 0; i < N; i++) begin
			mask_val[i] = i[0];
		end
	endfunction : mask_val

endmodule : test

Verilator complains with:

%Error: tmp/test.sv:5: Expecting expression to be constant, but can't determine constant for FUNCREF 'mask_val'
         tmp/test.sv:10: ... Location of non-constant ASSIGN: LHS isn't simple variable
         tmp/test.sv:5: ... Called from mask_val() with parameters:

I think the constantization is broken in this instance. Please see attached files.

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Author Name: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)
Original Date: 2019-11-02T15:27:41Z


Thanks for your report. Using arrays in constifications is unsupported at present. There's been some recent work but we aren't there yet, if you'd like to contribute/watch it please see #�.

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)
Original Date: 2019-11-09T23:37:30Z


#� has been fixed in git towards eventual 4.022 release.

This example passes when:

 parameter MASK = mask_val();

is changed to

 parameter mask_t MASK = mask_val();

The former is clearly legal according to IEEE 2017 6.20.2, but too nasty to get working correctly at the moment. FWIW a commercial simulator also chokes without the type specified.

Feel free to file a bug requesting the type be optional.

@veripoolbot veripoolbot added resolution: duplicate Closed; issue or pull request already exists type: feature-IEEE Request to add new feature, described in IEEE 1800 labels Dec 22, 2019
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