[firrtl] Add, use dramaticMessage #4684
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Factor out a utility for constructing distinctive messages from the CIRCT phase and into the firrtl package. This was always the plan, however, I forgot about it for years. This is being moved and made public so that I can use it when constructing Chiselsim error messages. Signed-off-by: Schuyler Eldridge <schuyler.eldridge@sifive.com>
Probably in a follow-on. I'm only delaying it as this patch only adds the non-color version. Did we ever try to do this in the normal way? I.e., most tools have a |
That's reasonable.
Normalish. Chisel detects if it should use color [1], unfortunately the JVM doesn't let you check just stdout so it will only be color if all of stdin/out/err are "interactive" but it's something. Chisel also uses environment variable |
Factor out a utility for constructing distinctive messages from the CIRCT phase and into the firrtl package. This was always the plan, however, I forgot about it for years.
This is being moved and made public so that I can use it when constructing Chiselsim error messages.
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firrtl.options.StageUtils.dramaticMessageutility for constructing distinctive error messages that do not print to stdout.