Verilator 5.004 2022-12-14 released

[wsnyder]

Verilator 5.004 2022-12-14

Major:

• Support named properties (verilator/verilator#3667). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Add ENUMVALUE warning when value misused for enum (verilator/verilator#726) (verilator/verilator#3777) (verilator/verilator#3783).
• Deprecate --no-threads; use --threads 1 for single threaded (verilator/verilator#3703). [Kamil Rakoczy, Antmicro Ltd]

Minor:

• Support std::semaphore and typed std::mailbox (verilator/verilator#3708). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
• Support 'with' in unique, unique_index, min, max in queues (verilator/verilator#3772). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Support events in VCD/FST traces (verilator/verilator#3759). [Yves Mathieu]
• Support foreach loops on strings (verilator/verilator#3760). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Support member selects in with clauses (verilator/verilator#3775). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Support super.new calls (verilator/verilator#3789). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Support randcase.
• Support pre_randomize and post_randomize.
• Support $timeunit and $timeprecision.
• Support assignment expressions.
• Change ENDLABEL from warning into an error.
• Internal AST improvements, also affect XML format (verilator/verilator#3721). [Geza Lore]
• Deprecate verilated_fst_sc.cpp and verilated_vcd_sc.cpp.
• Disable stack size limit (verilator/verilator#3706) (verilator/verilator#3751). [Mariusz Glebocki]
• Add error when use --exe with --lib-create (verilator/verilator#3785). [Yinan Xu]
• Fix jump handling in do while loops (verilator/verilator#3731). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Fix 'with' clause handling in functions (verilator/verilator#3739). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Fix CONTEXT compile error on mingw64 (verilator/verilator#3741). [William D. Jones]
• Fix MSVC compiler errors (verilator/verilator#3742) (verilator/verilator#3746). [Kritik Bhimani]
• Fix CASEINCOMPLETE when covers all enum values (verilator/verilator#3745) (verilator/verilator#3782). [Guy-Armand Kamendje]
• Fix return type of $countbits functions to int (verilator/verilator#3725). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Fix timing control in while-break loops (verilator/verilator#3733) (verilator/verilator#3769). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Fix return in constructors (verilator/verilator#3734). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Fix missing UNUSED warnings with --coverage (verilator/verilator#3736). [alejandro-castro-ortegon]
• Fix tracing parameters overridden with -G (verilator/verilator#3723). [Iztok Jeras]
• Fix folding of LogAnd with non-bool operands (verilator/verilator#3726). [Geza Lore]
• Fix Dfg optimization issues (verilator/verilator#3740) (verilator/verilator#3771). [Geza Lore]
• Fix pre/postincrement operations (verilator/verilator#3744) (verilator/verilator#3756). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Fix cross-compile for MingW, Arm and RiscV (verilator/verilator#3752). [Miodrag Milanović]
• Fix $unit as base package for other packages (verilator/verilator#3755). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd]
• Fix make jobserver with submakes (verilator/verilator#3758). [Gus Smith]
• Fix to escape VERILATOR_ROOT file paths (verilator/verilator#3764) (verilator/verilator#3765). [Jiacheng Qian]
• Fix empty string literals converting to string types (verilator/verilator#3774). [miree]
• Fix to remove $date from .vcd files (verilator/verilator#3779). [Larry Doolittle]
• Fix missing user objects in --lib-create mode (verilator/verilator#3780) (verilator/verilator#3784). [Yinan Xu]
• Fix non-blocking assignments in forks (verilator/verilator#3781) (verilator/verilator#3800). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
• Fix forks without any delayed statements (verilator/verilator#3792) (verilator/verilator#3801). [Krzysztof Bieganski, Antmicro Ltd]
• Fix internal error in bit op tree optimization (verilator/verilator#3793). [Yutetsu TAKATSUKASA]
• Fix lint_off EOFNEWLINE in .vlt files (verilator/verilator#3796). [Andrew Nolte]
• Fix wait 0.
• Fix comparing ranged slices of unpacked arrays.