Verilator 4.218 2022-01-17 released

[wsnyder]

Verilator 4.218 2022-01-17

Major:

• Primary inputs and outputs (VL_INW/VL_OUTW) now use VlWide type. In general this should be backward compatible, but may lead to some wrapper code needing changes.
• Option --cdc is deprecated and is planned for removal, file a bug if this is still being used.

Minor:

• Support class static members (verilator/verilator#2233).
• Support force/release (verilator/verilator#2431) (verilator/verilator#2593). [Shunyao CAD]
• Add 'forceable' attribute to allow forcing from C++. (verilator/verilator#3272). [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
• Support lower dimension looping in foreach loops (verilator/verilator#3172). [Ehab Ibrahim]
• Support up to 64 bit enums for .next/.prev/.name (verilator/verilator#3244). [Alexander Grobman]
• Reduce .rodata footprint of trace initialization (verilator/verilator#3250). [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
• Support FST tracing in hierarchical Verilation (verilator/verilator#3251). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
• Use C++11 standard types for MacOS portability (verilator/verilator#3254) (verilator/verilator#3257). [Adrien Le Masle]
• Fix make support for BSD ar (verilator/verilator#2999) (verilator/verilator#3256). [Julie Schwartz]
• Fix bad ending address on $readmem (verilator/verilator#3205). [Julie Schwartz]
• Fix MSWIN compile error (verilator/verilator#2681). [Unai Martinez-Corral]
• Fix break under foreach loop (verilator/verilator#3230).
• Fix VL_STREAML_FAST_QQI with 64 bit left-hand-side (verilator/verilator#3232) (verilator/verilator#3235). [Adrien Le Masle]
• Fix $sformat of inputs/outputs (verilator/verilator#3236). [Adrien Le Masle]
• Fix associative array first method as statement (verilator/verilator#3228). [Adrien Le Masle]
• Fix associative array foreach loop (verilator/verilator#3229).
• Fix $fclose not accepting expressions (verilator/verilator#3237). [Julie Schwartz]
• Fix $random not updating seed (verilator/verilator#3238). [Julie Schwartz]
• Fix top level param overwrite when package has same param (verilator/verilator#3241) (verilator/verilator#3247). [Adrien Le Masle]
• Fix spurious UNUSED by ignoring inout pin connections (verilator/verilator#3242). [Julie Schwartz]
• Fix splitting of _eval and other top level functions. [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
• Fix internal error by inout port (verilator/verilator#3258). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
• Fix GCC 11 compile error (verilator/verilator#3273). [HungMingWu]

[umarcor]

@wsnyder can you please tag v4.218 in https://github.com/verilator/verilator/tags?

[wsnyder]

Tag pushed.