Replace the virtual type() method on AstNode with a non-virtual, inlined
accessor to a const member variable m_type. This means that in order to be
able to use this for type testing, it needs to be initialized based on the
final type of the node. This is achieved by passing the relevant AstType
value back through the constructor call chain. Most of the boilerplate
involved is auto generated by first feeding V3AstNodes.h through astgen to
get V3AstNodes__gen.h, which is then included in V3Ast.h. No client code
needs to be aware and there is no functional change intended.
Eliminating the virtual function call to fetch the node type identifier
results in measured compilation speed improvement of 5-10% as it
eliminates up to 20% of all mispredicted branches from the execution.
The intention was that all subclasses of AstNode which are
intermediate must be abstract as well and called AstNode*. This was
violated recently by 28b9db1903. This
patch restores that property by:
- Renaming AstFile to AstNodeFile
- Introducing AstNodeSimpleText as the common base of AstText and
AstTextBlock, rather than AstTextBlock deriving from AstText.
Add very basic support for vpiModule. Basically it allows to traverse
the module tree to find a variable etc. It does not support more than
vpi_iterate and vpi_scan for vpiModule along basic operations like
vpi_get_str on vpiModule.
The support is added non-intrusively to non-VPI verilator runs. It
essentially:
- Tracks the creation of cell instances and keeps them alive until
the emit phase. They are there converted to scopes if modules.
- Emits empty (don't add anything during construction)
VerilatedScopes for all inlined modules, only for those inlined
modules that are on the hierarchical path to public variables.
- Adds VerilatedHierarchy as abstraction to structure of the
scopes. It is only created for VPI designs. It allows to traverse
the hierarchy from the top (NULL).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wallentowitz <stefan@wallentowitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org>
