Conditional assignment to a slice can generate invalid Verilog

[daniestevez]

The following code

from amaranth import *
import amaranth.back.verilog

m = Module()
output = Signal(2)
enable = Signal()
with m.If(enable):
    m.d.comb += output[0].eq(1)

with open('test.v', 'w') as f:
    f.write(amaranth.back.verilog.convert(
        m, ports=[enable, output],
        emit_src=False))

generates this Verilog

/* Generated by Yosys 0.21+18 (git sha1 0ab726e20, clang 10.0.0-4ubuntu1 -fPIC -Os) */

(* \amaranth.hierarchy  = "top" *)
(* top =  1  *)
(* generator = "Amaranth" *)
module top(\output , enable);
  reg \$auto$verilog_backend.cc:2083:dump_module$1  = 0;
  input enable;
  wire enable;
  output [1:0] \output ;
  reg [1:0] \output ;
  always @* begin
    if (\$auto$verilog_backend.cc:2083:dump_module$1 ) begin end
    \output [0] = 1'h0;
    casez (enable)
      /* src = "/home/user/test.py:9" */
      1'h1:
          \output [0] = 1'h1;
    endcase
  end
  assign \output [1] = 1'h0;
endmodule

I think that this is invalid, because \output is a reg but there is a continuous assignment for \output[1] (Vivado rejects this code).

As a workaround, we can add

with m.If(enable):
    m.d.comb += output[1].eq(0)

which doesn't change the behaviour (because the reset value of output is zero) but makes the assign disappear from the Verilog output.

[whitequark]

This is unfortunately an upstream Yosys bug that is quite difficult to address. I do have a plan for it but it's more long-term than anything.

[whitequark]

Triage: still an issue with NIR on a586df8.

[whitequark]

Will be fixed by YosysHQ/yosys#4314.