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Provide "COCOTB_SIM_DEBUG" Makefile variable

See original GitHub issue

For the kind of debugging work in #639, it would be good to have a documented Makefile variable like COCOTB_SIM_DEBUG which would switch options like Cadence Incisive/Xcelium’s -plinowarn and -pliverbose. Does anyone know examples of such switches for other simulators?

Example code:

ifeq ($(COCOTB_SIM_DEBUG),1)
    EXTRA_ARGS += -pliverbose
    EXTRA_ARGS += -messages
else
    EXTRA_ARGS += -plinowarn
endif

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments:7 (7 by maintainers)

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cmarqucommented, May 23, 2020

Closing as we want to get rid of as many variables as possible, see #1495.

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cmarqucommented, Mar 9, 2020

@wallento What do you think about the idea of throwing together VERILATOR_SIM_DEBUG and VERILATOR_TRACE under COCOTB_SIM_DEBUG?

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