Added -no_dump_ptr flag for AST dump options in 'read_verilog'

This option disables the memory pointer display.
This is useful when diff'ing different dumps because otherwise the node pointers
makes every diff line different when the AST content is the same.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc b/frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc
index 911e36112..8dcc7c5aa 100644
--- a/frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc
+++ b/frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ struct VerilogFrontend : public Frontend {
 		log("    -dump_ast2\n");
 		log("        dump abstract syntax tree (after simplification)\n");
 		log("\n");
+		log("    -no_dump_ptr\n");
+		log("        do not include hex memory addresses in dump (easier to diff dumps)\n");
+		log("\n");
 		log("    -dump_vlog\n");
 		log("        dump ast as Verilog code (after simplification)\n");
 		log("\n");
@@ -184,6 +187,7 @@ struct VerilogFrontend : public Frontend {
 	{
 		bool flag_dump_ast1 = false;
 		bool flag_dump_ast2 = false;
+		bool flag_no_dump_ptr = false;
 		bool flag_dump_vlog = false;
 		bool flag_dump_rtlil = false;
 		bool flag_nolatches = false;
@@ -241,6 +245,10 @@ struct VerilogFrontend : public Frontend {
 				flag_dump_ast2 = true;
 				continue;
 			}
+			if (arg == "-no_dump_ptr") {
+				flag_no_dump_ptr = true;
+				continue;
+			}
 			if (arg == "-dump_vlog") {
 				flag_dump_vlog = true;
 				continue;
@@ -381,7 +389,7 @@ struct VerilogFrontend : public Frontend {
 		if (flag_nodpi)
 			error_on_dpi_function(current_ast);
 
-		AST::process(design, current_ast, flag_dump_ast1, flag_dump_ast2, flag_dump_vlog, flag_dump_rtlil, flag_nolatches, flag_nomeminit, flag_nomem2reg, flag_mem2reg, lib_mode, flag_noopt, flag_icells, flag_nooverwrite, flag_overwrite, flag_defer, default_nettype_wire);
+		AST::process(design, current_ast, flag_dump_ast1, flag_dump_ast2, flag_no_dump_ptr, flag_dump_vlog, flag_dump_rtlil, flag_nolatches, flag_nomeminit, flag_nomem2reg, flag_mem2reg, lib_mode, flag_noopt, flag_icells, flag_nooverwrite, flag_overwrite, flag_defer, default_nettype_wire);
 
 		if (!flag_nopp)
 			delete lexin;