[libre-riscv-dev] [Bug 316] bperm TODO

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316

--- Comment #34 from Cole Poirier <colepoirier at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #33)
> Cole, one critically important thing that you need to learn as a "first
> reaction"
> is to go through every single file, at every single line, on a stack trace,
> actually seeing what that line (and nearby) actually does.
> 
> here is the relevant line of nmigen.test.utils:
> 
>         with subprocess.Popen([require_tool("sby"), "-f", "-d", spec_name],
> cwd=spec_dir,
>                               universal_newlines=True,
>                               stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
> as proc:
>             stdout, stderr = proc.communicate(config)
> 
> also, that it is perfectly find to insert debug print statements into that
> code in order to find out what is going on.
> 
> for example, do this:
> 
>         sbytool = require_tool("sby")
>         print ("sby tool blah blah", sbytool, spec_name, spec_dir)
>         with subprocess.Popen([sbytool, "-f", "-d", spec_name], ....
> 
> 
> then, if that is not obvious what is going on, drill down into require_tool,
> which can be found in nmigen/_toolchain.py
> 
> and there, start dropping in a ton of print debug statements that tell you
> what is going on.
> 
> print ("env_var", env_var)
> print path
> print shutil.which(path)
> print os.environ.keys()
> 
> etc blah blah blah
> 
> further up the assertFormal function, start dropping in print statements
> there.
> 
> basically, when you've done all that, try this:
> 
> lkcl at fizzy:~/src/libresoc/soc/src/soc/logical/formal$ python3 proof_bperm.py
> 
> and:
> 
> lkcl at fizzy:~/src/libresoc/soc/src/soc/logical/formal$ cd ..
> lkcl at fizzy:~/src/libresoc/soc/src/soc/logical$ python3 logical/proof_bperm.py
> 
> and tell me what happens in each case.

Ah yes, classic python debugging print over here, print over there, print
everywhere! I thought I was doing something trivially wrong. Will deep dive
now. Thank you for the guidance. Will report back shortly.

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