Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)
Original Date: 2011-12-23T14:48:41Z

I moved this to under Verilog-Perl, as I presume your intent is to extend vppreproc. The same thing could be done with "verilator -E" but vppreproc seems the more extendable solution.

If I understand properly there would be a new "vppreproc --keep-ifdef FOO" where all references to "ifdef/ifndef/`elsif FOO" etc would remain in the output.

To implement this, working from the top down

• make a test case in the t/ directory - this will obviously fail until implemented :) Be sure the test includes the elsif cases noted below.
• add the option including documentation to vppreproc; the option would set opt_pp_flags->{keep_ifdef}{$NAME} = 1 for each passed option.
• In Preproc.pm document the keep_ifdef, add a new function def_keep that tests that hash and returns true.
• Plumb def_keep into the .h, .cpp, .xs similar to how def_value is done though
  def_keep can return a bool. (See also defExists)
• In V3Preproc under 'case ps_DEFNAME_IFDEF:' you'd call defKeep() and if set
  buf= a string with "`ifdef "+ the define name to yyourtext, then return VP_TEXT; (i.e. return the text to print rather than do the ifdef)
• ENDIF/ELSIF needs to know defKeep() was set for that level; remember defKeep in the VPreIfEntry structure. ELSIF is a bit complicated as you may need to convert it to a ifndef/ifdef (All the permutations of if REMOVING elsif REMOVING, if NOT_REMOVING elsif REMOVING, etc.)

Seems like a lot but shouldn't take too long as it's almost all plumbing.

Start with the git version, as I did a small refactoring to make this easier.

Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)
Original Date: 2013-05-30T00:35:59Z

Closing due to age - if you want to do this yourself we'll still take it.