clash-lib-0.6.21: CHANGELOG.md

# Changelog for the [`clash-lib`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/clash-lib) package

## 0.6.21 *August 18th 2016*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Type families are not currently being reduced correctly [#167](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/167)

## 0.6.20 *August 3rd 2016*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Bug in DEC transformation overwrites case-alternatives
  * Bug in DEC transformation creates non-representable let-binders

## 0.6.19 *July 19th 2016*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Rounding error in `logBase` calculation

## 0.6.18 *July 15th 2016*
* New features:
  * Better error location reporting
* Fixes bugs:
  * Values of type Index 'n', where 'n' > 2^MACHINE_WIDTH, incorrectly considered non-synthesisable due to overflow

## 0.6.17 *June 9th 2016*
* Fixes bugs:
  * `Eq` instance of `Vec` sometimes not synthesisable

## 0.6.16 *June 7th 2016*
* New features:
  * DEC transformation also lifts HO-primitives applied to "interesting" primitives (i.e. `zipWith (*)`)
* Fixes bugs:
  * replicate unfolded incorrectly [#150](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/150)
  * `imap` is not unrolled [#151](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/151)

## 0.6.15 *April 7th 2016*
* New features:
  * Up to 2x reduced compilation times when working with large `Vec` literals
* Fixes bugs:
  * Bug in DEC transformation throws CLaSH into an endless loop [#140](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/140)

## 0.6.14 *March 21st 2016*
* New features:
  * Also generate testbench for circuits without input ports [#135](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/135)
* Fixes bugs:
  * `clockWizard` broken [#49](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-prelude/issues/49)

## 0.6.13 *March 14th 2016*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Not all lambda's in a function position removed

## 0.6.12 *March 14th 2016*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Not all lambda's in a function position removed due to bad eta-expansion [#132](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/132)

## 0.6.11 *March 11th 2016*
* New features:
  * Add support for HDL synthesis tool specific HDL generation
  * Preserve more Haskell names in generated HDL [#128](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/128)

## 0.6.10 *February 10th 2016*
* New features:
  * hdl files can be written to a directory other than the current working directory [#125](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/125)
* Fixes bugs:
  * `caseCon` transformation does not work on non-exhaustive case-expressions [#123](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/123)
  * Primitive reductions don't look through `Signal` [#126](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/126)

## 0.6.9
* Fixes bugs:
  * `case undefined of ...` should reduce to `undefined` [#116](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/109)
  * Type families obscure eligibility for synthesis [#114](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/114)

## 0.6.8 *January 13th 2015*
* New features:
  * Support for Haskell's: `Char`, `Int8`, `Int16`, `Int32`, `Int64`, `Word`, `Word8`, `Word16`, `Word32`, `Word64`.
  * Int/Word/Integer bitwidth for generated HDL is configurable using the `-clash-intwidth=N` flag, where `N` can be either 32 or 64.
* Fixes bugs:
  * Cannot reduce `case error ... of ...` to `error ...` [#109](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/109)

## 0.6.7 *December 21st 2015*
* Support for `unbound-generics-0.3`
* New features:
  * Only look for 'topEntity' in the root module. [#22](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/22)

## 0.6.6 *December 11th 2015*
* New features:
  * Remove all existing HDL files before generating new ones. This can be disabled by the `-clash-noclean` flag. [#96](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/96)
  * Support for `clash-prelude` 0.10.4

## 0.6.5 *November 17th 2015*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Integer literals used as arguments not always properly annotated with their type.

## 0.6.4 *November 12th 2015*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Reversing alternatives is not meaning preserving for literal patterns [#91](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/91)
  * DEC: root of the case-tree must contain at least 2 alternatives [#92](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/92)

## 0.6.3 *October 24th 2015*
* New features:
  * Improve DEC transformation: consider alternatives before the subject when checking for disjoint expressions.
* Fixes bugs:
  * DEC: don't generate single-branch case-expressions [#90](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/90)

## 0.6.2 *October 21st 2015*
* Fixes bugs:
  * DEC: Subject and alternatives are not disjoint [#88](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/88)

## 0.6.1 *October 16th 2015*
* New features:
  * Support for `clash-prelude` 0.10.1
  * Transformation that lifts applications of the same function out of alternatives of case-statements. e.g.

    ```haskell
    case x of
      A -> f 3 y
      B -> f x x
      C -> h x
    ```

    is transformed into:

    ```haskell
    let f_arg0 = case x of {A -> 3; B -> x}
        f_arg1 = case x of {A -> y; B -> x}
        f_out  = f f_arg0 f_arg1
    in  case x of
          A -> f_out
          B -> f_out
          C -> h x
    ```

* Fixes bugs:
  * Case-statements acting like normal decoder circuits are erroneously synthesised to priority decoder circuits.

## 0.6 *October 3rd 2015*
* New features:
  * Support for `clash-prelude` 0.10
  * Add `~INDEXTYPE` tag: primitives get access to the `Index` clash-prelude type
  * Add `~IF` construct: primitives can do conditional templating
  * Unroll "definitions" of the following primitives: `fold`, `dfold`, `foldr`

## 0.5.13 *September 21st 2015*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Performance bug: top-level definitions of type "Signal" erroneously inlined.

## 0.5.12 *September 14th 2015*
* New features:
  * Completely unroll "definitions" of some higher-order primitives with non-representable argument or result vectors:
    It is now possible to translate e.g. `f xs ys = zipWith ($) (map (+) xs) ys :: Vec 4 Int -> Vec 4 Int -> Vec 4 Int`

* Fixes bugs:
  * `topLet` transformation erroneously not performed in a top-down traversal
  * Specialisation limit unchecked on types and constants
  * Vector of functions cannot be translated [#25](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/25 )
  * CLaSH fails to generate VHDL when map is applied [#78](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/78)

## 0.5.11 *September 7th 2015*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Clash running out of memory on Simple-ish project [#70](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/70)
  * `CLaSH.Sized.Vector.:>` was not allowed as a function argument to HO-primitives

## 0.5.10 *August 2nd 2015*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Make testbench generation deterministic
  * Compile against unbound-generics-0.2

## 0.5.9 *July 9th 2015*
* Fixes bugs:
  * `coreView` didn't look through newtypes of the form: `newtype Foo a = MkFoo (Maybe a)`

## 0.5.8 *June 26th 2015*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Allow text and tags in ~SIGD black box construct

## 0.5.7 *June 25th 2015*
* New features:
  * Support for copying string literals from Haskell to generated code
  * Collect and copy data-files

* Fixes bugs:
  * Signals declared twice when not using a clock-generating component [#60](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/60)
  * This piece of code eat up all CPU when generating verilog [#62](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/60)

## 0.5.6 *June 3rd 2015*
* New features:
  * Support Verilog backend
  * Generated component names are prefixed by the name of the module containing the `topEntity`

## 0.5.5 *May 18th 2015*
* New features:
  * Make inlining and specialisation limit configurable
  * Make debug message level configurable

* Fixes bugs:
  * Netlist: ensure that the arguments of a component instantiation are always simple variables
  * CaseCon transformation: ensure that we run the compile-time evaluator on the subject before handling the one-alternative case
  * Emit a warning if a function remains recursive, instead of producing an error: compilation can still be successful if the function is an argument to a higher-order blackbox that doesn't use the function.
  * Emit a warning if inlining limit is reached, instead of producing an error: compilation can still be successful if the function is an argument to a higher-order blackbox that doesn't use the function.
  * Always inline terms that have a type of kind `Constraint`

## 0.5.4 *May 10th 2015*
* New features:
  * Add `~COMPNAME` tag: primitives get access to the component name in which they are instantiated

## 0.5.3 *May 5th 2015*
* New features:
  * `TopEntity` wrappers are now specified as `ANN` annotation pragmas
* Fixes bugs:
  * Lost system1000 clock in VHDL generation... [#53](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/53)
  * `flattenCallTree` sometimes introduces free variables

## 0.5.2 *May 1st 2015*
* New features:
  * Generate wrappers around `topEntity` that have constant names and types

## 0.5.1 *April 20th 2015*
* GHC 7.10 support

## 0.5 *March 11th 2015*
* New features:
  * Simplify BlackBox handling, and improve VHDL generation. [#47](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/47)
  * Use unbound-generics. [#48](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/48)

* Fixes bugs:
  * VHDL generation error: wrapper for sum-of-products type. [#44](https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/issues/44)

## 0.4.1 *February 4th 2015*
* Fixes bugs:
  * Treat BlackBox expressions as declarations when DC args. [#37](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/33)
  * Don't inline recursive closed bindings

## 0.4 *November 17th 2014*
* New features:
  * Support for clash-prelude 0.6

* Fixes bugs:
  * Ambiguous type: 'std_logic_vector' or 'std_ulogic_vector' [#33](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/33)

## 0.3.2 *June 5th 2014*

* Fixes bugs:
  * VHDL array constant ambiguous [#18](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/18)
  * Exception: can't create selector [#24](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/24)
  * Calls to `vhdlTypeMark` don't result to inclusion of VHDL type in types.vhdl [#28](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/28)

## 0.3.1 *May 15th 2014*

* New features:
  * Make ANF lift non-representable values [#7](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/7)
  * Hardcode `fromInteger` for `Signed` and `Unsigned` [#9](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/9)
  * Replace VHDL default hole by error hole [#13](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/13)

* Fixes bugs:
  * Type families are not expanded [#3](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/3)
  * Exception: CLaSH.Netlist.VHDL(512): fromSLV: Vector 13 Bool [#5](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/5)
  * Incorrect vhdl generation for default value in blackbox [#6](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/6)
  * Duplicate type names when multiple ADTs need the same amount of bits [#8](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/8)
  * Circuit testbench generation with MAC example fails[#15](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/15)

* Code improvements:
  * Refactor Netlist/BlackBox [#10](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/10)
  * CPP special-case conversion of `Control.Exception.Base.irrefutPatError` [#11](https://github.com/christiaanb/clash2/issues/11)