Verilator 4.038 2020-07-11 Released

[wsnyder]

Verilator 4.036 2020-06-06 released

Major:

• Versions 4.038 and 4.040 are planned to be the final versions that will support pre-C++11 compilers. Please move to C++11 or newer compilers.

Notable:

• Support VPI access to parameters and localparam. [Ludwig Rogiers]
• Support parsing (not elaboration, yet) of UVM.

Other:

• Add new UNSUPPORTED error code to replace most previous Unsupported: messages.
• With --bbox-unsup continue parsing on many (not all) UVM constructs.
• Support for-loop increments with commas.
• Support $swrite with arbitrary arguments.
• Support $writememb (verilator/verilator#2450). [Fan Shupei]
• Fix OS X, Free BSD, and -m32 portability issues. [Geza Lore]
• Fix to flush FST trace on termination due to $stop or assertion failure.
• Fix part select error when multipling by power-of-two (verilator/verilator#2413). [Conor McCullough]
• Fix division exception (verilator/verilator#2460) [Kuoping Hsu]