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| author | umarcor <unai.martinezcorral@ehu.eus> | 2021-04-23 04:24:28 +0200 |
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| committer | tgingold <tgingold@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-04-23 05:34:09 +0200 |
| commit | 82cdb8faaedfaa0c7e860aa024e13bf25e0618b3 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/ghw/README.md b/ghw/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e64bbf769 --- /dev/null +++ b/ghw/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +# GHDL Wavefile helpers + +This subdir contains C helpers for managing GHDL Wavefiles (GHW). +These sources are used in GTKWave for reading GHW waves (see [gtkwave/gtkwave/search?q=ghwlib](https://github.com/gtkwave/gtkwave/search?q=ghwlib)). + +- `ghwlib.c` and `ghwlib.h` provide the reader library. +- `ghwdump.c` uses the library for dumping the content of GHW files in text, for debugging purposes. `ghwdump` is built and installed with GHDL by default, and it is used in the test suite. + +These helpers are independent from GHDL's codebase. However, the GHW format is not specified, so it might change as a result of internal tweaks in GHDL. Hence, it is strongly suggested to use the helpers provided in the GHDL installation. |