From 7d7e068dd1c5e04cf0c2b9e18abade2b49fe677e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Clifford Wolf Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:20:25 +0100 Subject: Added a warning note about error reporting to read_verilog help message --- frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc') diff --git a/frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc b/frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc index d46dfa6e..477f26b4 100644 --- a/frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc +++ b/frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc @@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ struct VerilogFrontend : public Frontend { log("The command 'verilog_defaults' can be used to register default options for\n"); log("subsequent calls to 'read_verilog'.\n"); log("\n"); + log("Note that the Verilog frontend does a pretty good job of processing valid\n"); + log("verilog input, but has not very good error reporting. It generally is\n"); + log("recommended to use a simulator (for example icarus verilog) for checking\n"); + log("the syntax of the code, rather than to rely on read_verilog for that.\n"); + log("\n"); } virtual void execute(FILE *&f, std::string filename, std::vector args, RTLIL::Design *design) { -- cgit v1.2.3