Subject: Re: [bug#73717] [PATCH v1] gnu: Add yosys-clang.

From: Cayetano Santos <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:49:37 +0200

>Thu 24 Oct 2024 at 12:07, Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, why is it necessary to have a Clang-built variant of
> yosys?  Does that change is feature set?

Performance, cababilities and (usually) different outcomes.

I’m interested on the yosys + ghdl-plugin for synthesis of vhdl code
(not verilog, default in yosys). All these tools come with several
technologies as backends, in order to compare performance, results,
features (code coverage comes to my mind right now), etc.

> Could you add a synopsis, like:
>
>   (synopsis "FPGA Verilog RTL synthesizer (Clang variant)")

Sure !