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trace of struct array not working correctly #742

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veripoolbot opened this issue Apr 15, 2014 · 2 comments
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trace of struct array not working correctly #742

veripoolbot opened this issue Apr 15, 2014 · 2 comments
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area: wrong runtime result Issue involves an incorrect runtine result from Verilated model resolution: fixed Closed; fixed

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Author Name: Jie Xu (@jiexu)
Original Redmine Issue: 742 from https://www.veripool.org
Original Date: 2014-04-15
Original Assignee: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)


For the following code, the generated VCD dump file will only have tt[31:0].




module test (clk, result);

input  wire       clk;
output wire [31:0] result;

typedef struct packed {
     logic [31:0] data;
} tt_t;

tt_t [1:0] tt;

initial begin
tt[0] = 'hff;
tt[1] = 'h0;
end

assign result = tt[0] | tt[1];

always_ff @ (posedge clk)
begin
     tt[0] <= tt[0] - 1;
     tt[1] <= tt[1] + 1;
end
endmodule

I did some investigation in the Verilator source. The cause of this problem is when @tt@ signal is declared for tracing, Verilator use @bitRange@ infomation which is actually the the structure @tt_t@ information. And when @AstTraceDecl@ is created in @V3TraceDecl.cpp@, @arrayRange@ is not used. So the final VCD dump will only show the value of the first struct inside the array.

Note the tracing works with "--trace-structs" option.

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Author Name: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)
Original Date: 2014-04-16T00:21:10Z


Fixed in git towards 3.857.

Note without --trace-structs, as this is a packed array it should have and will now trace it as <63:0> as that is the size it has as a packed array. With --trace-structs, you'll see the separate fields, but the tracing is larger and slower thanks to the ugly VCD file format.

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)
Original Date: 2014-05-11T21:08:42Z


In 3.860.

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