Re: [Iverilog-devel] Small stuff

[Martin W. <ic...@ma...>]

On 01/10/2020 10:02, Evan Lavelle wrote:
> A couple of minor irritations:
> 
> 1 - a genvar has a size which is calculated dynamically by Icarus; it
> might be 5 bits, or 10 bits, or whatever. This is fine, but when you
> connect it to a module port there's nothing you can declare the port as
> that won't generate a compiler warning (unless you guess or derive the
> correct size, of course). So, you can't generally declare the port as
> '[31:0]', for example

This should have been avoidable by using the -gstrict-expr-width 
compiler option, but this particular case wasn't handled. I've pushed a 
fix for that to both the master and v11 branches.

> 2 - Under some circumstances, a task with no parameters will raise a
> compiler warning; in some circumstances, it won't. It would be nice to
> get rid of this warning as well - it serves no purpose.

Can you give an example of this.