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diff --git a/manual/CHAPTER_Overview.tex b/manual/CHAPTER_Overview.tex index ac0f48e47..83cfa5cc4 100644 --- a/manual/CHAPTER_Overview.tex +++ b/manual/CHAPTER_Overview.tex @@ -193,6 +193,13 @@ Violating these rules results in a runtime error. All RTLIL identifiers are case sensitive. +Some transformations, such as flattening, may have to change identifiers provided by the user +to avoid name collisions. When that happens, attribute ``{\tt hdlname}`` is attached to the object +with the changed identifier. This attribute contains one name (if emitted directly by the frontend, +or is a result of disambiguation) or multiple names separated by spaces (if a result of flattening). +All names specified in the ``{\tt hdlname}`` attribute are public and do not include the leading +``\textbackslash``. + \subsection{RTLIL::Design and RTLIL::Module} The RTLIL::Design object is basically just a container for RTLIL::Module objects. In addition to |