Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)
Original Date: 2014-08-29T15:42:39Z

Looking at the current sources, there is a "parser" option passed to the read method of Netlist::File which was added since the version you based your patch upon. Can you see if this also solves your issue?

Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Ed Carstens
Original Date: 2014-08-29T16:08:01Z

I don't see a "parser" option in 3.404, but I do make use of the "preproc" one. "preproc" passes the class name for the new object to be created (my derived class). The Preproc obj still needs a ref back to File obj. At one point I also thought it would be good to have a ref to the Preproc obj from File obj, but it turns out I don't need this.

Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)
Original Date: 2014-08-29T16:25:41Z

Please make sure your $VERSION in that file is 3.404 or 3.405, the File.pm you sent is much older VERSION.

Here's the change, which was first in 3.404.

585bc4d (Wilson Snyder 2014-05-02 12:37:46 -0400 441) my $parser_class = ($params{parser} || $netlist->{parser});

Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Ed Carstens
Original Date: 2014-08-29T16:55:23Z

Okay, now I see what you are talking about. This would let me pass in my own derived File::Parser class which could change the constructor to do what I need. I prefer not to do this, though. I don't like having to maintain my own copied versions of things, in this case the constructor. And because $preproc is a local var, I can't just call super new and then call $preproc->fileref(..) I guess one solution would be to make $preproc be a member of the File::Parser class instead of a private var.

So I still think what I first described would be a nice thing to put in the base File::Parser class.

Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)
Original Date: 2014-09-09T21:36:23Z

I added Verilog::Preproc->parent() and Verilog::Netlist::File->preproc()

Fixed in git towards 3.405. Please test the git version, thanks.

Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)
Original Date: 2014-09-21T13:01:03Z

In 3.406.