From: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:20:25 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Added a warning note about error reporting to read_verilog help message
X-Git-Tag: yosys-0.3.0~146
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d7e068dd1c5e04cf0c2b9e18abade2b49fe677e;p=yosys.git

Added a warning note about error reporting to read_verilog help message
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diff --git a/frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc b/frontends/verilog/verilog_frontend.cc
index d46dfa6e2..477f26b45 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<std::string> args, RTLIL::Design *design)
 	{