gEDA: A GPL Verilog "lint" advocate

["Brad Martin P.E." <brad-at-NOSPAMnshore_dot_com>]

Verilint is a wonderful tool, I shudder to think of some
of the careless sins of omission it's detected in my code.

Even though it needles you, writing Verilint-clean code
makes everything better on the back end. Using it has made
me a better Verilog programmer.

We don't have it here (too expensive) and now that the
price is $47K (plus probably 20% annual maintenance) 
I guess we'll never have it. :-(

The GPL Verilog work that is going on here is wonderful.
Thankfully, we can get inexpensive (well, $3K) Verilog
simulators to help blunt the impact of $20K mainstream
Verilog tool licenses. Regarding lint, I don't know of
ANY Verilog lint program besides Verilint, certainly not
a cheap or free one, and I personally know scores of people
who are dying for access to that type of tool.

Any "lint"-ish functions that make it into the work here
will widely increase the audience. This is a great thread.

- brad martin
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