Verilator 5.024 2024-04-05 released

[wsnyder]

Verilator 5.024 2024-04-05

Major:

• Add printing summary reports, use --quiet or +verilator+quiet to suppress (verilator/verilator#4909).
• Support 1800-2023 keywords, and parsing with UNDEFINED warnings.
• Support 1800-2023 preprocessor ifdef expressions.

Minor:

• Change 1800-2023 to be default language version.
• Add DFG 'regularize' pass, and improve variable removal (verilator/verilator#4937). [Geza Lore]
• Add error when pass net to function argument (verilator/verilator#4132) (verilator/verilator#4966). [Fuad Ismail]
• Add UNUSEDLOOP when unused loop is removed (verilator/verilator#4926). [Bartłomiej Chmiel, Antmicro Ltd.]
• Add custom version for verilator --version packaging (verilator/verilator#4954). [Nolan Poe]
• Add error on missing pure virtual functions (verilator/verilator#4961).
• Add error on calling static function without object (verilator/verilator#4962).
• Add JSON AST dumps (verilator/verilator#5020). [Szymon Gizler]
• Support 1800-2023 DPI headers, svGetTime/svgGetTimeUnit/svGetTimePrecision methods.
• Support 1800-2023 class and function :initial, :extends, :final virtual overrides (verilator/verilator#5025).
• Support public packed struct / union (verilator/verilator#860) (verilator/verilator#4878). [Kefa Chen]
• Support stream operation on unpacked array (verilator/verilator#4714) (verilator/verilator#5006). [Fuad Ismail]
• Support implicitly-typed variable definitions in for-loop initializers (verilator/verilator#4945) (verilator/verilator#4986). [Kevin Nygaard]
• Support inside range with implicit type conversion (verilator/verilator#5026). [Arkadiusz Kozdra, Antmicro Ltd.]
• Improve installation to be relocatable (verilator/verilator#4927). [Geza Lore]
• Improve internal ordering code (verilator/verilator#4957) (verilator/verilator#4990) (verilator/verilator#4994) et al. [Geza Lore]
• Fix generate blocks in vpi_iterate (verilator/verilator#3609) (verilator/verilator#4913). [Andrew Nolte]
• Fix __Vlip undefined error in --freloop (verilator/verilator#4824). [Justin Yao Du]
• Fix missing VPI scopes (verilator/verilator#4918). [Andrew Nolte]
• Fix invalid cast on string structure creation (verilator/verilator#4921).
• Fix try-lock spuriously fails (verilator/verilator#4931) (verilator/verilator#4938). [Kamil Rakoczy]
• Fix V3Unknown unpacked struct x-assign (verilator/verilator#4934). [Yan Xu]
• Fix DFG removing forceable signals (verilator/verilator#4942). [Geza Lore]
• Fix null characters in shortened identifiers (verilator/verilator#4946). [Abdul Hameed]
• Fix assignment of null into struct member (verilator/verilator#4952).
• Fix VPI missing scopes 2 (verilator/verilator#4965). [Andrew Nolte]
• Fix object assignment from conditionals (verilator/verilator#4968).
• Fix GCC14 warnings on template specialization syntax (verilator/verilator#4974) (verilator/verilator#4975). [Nolan Poe]
• Fix unpacked structure upper bit cleaning (verilator/verilator#4978).
• Fix tests on MacOS (verilator/verilator#4984) (verilator/verilator#4985). [Kevin Nygaard]
• Fix --prof-exec predicted time values (verilator/verilator#4988). [Geza Lore]
• Fix class type as an associative array parameter (verilator/verilator#4997).
• Fix inout ports of unpacked struct type (verilator/verilator#5000). [Ryszard Rozak, Antmicro Ltd.]
• Fix unique {} constraints missing semicolon (verilator/verilator#5001).
• Fix preprocessor to respect strings in joins (verilator/verilator#5007).
• Fix tracing class parameters (verilator/verilator#5014).
• Fix memory leaks (verilator/verilator#5016). [Geza Lore]
• Fix $readmem with missing newline (verilator/verilator#5019). [Josse Van Delm]
• Fix internal error on missing pattern key (verilator/verilator#5023).
• Fix tracing replicated hierarchical models (verilator/verilator#5027).