Improved Chisel Naming via Compiler Plugins + Prefixing (#1448)

Added prefixing and a compiler plugin to improve naming. Only works for Scala 2.12 and above.

Co-authored-by: Jack Koenig <koenig@sifive.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/scala/chisel3/util/TransitName.scala b/src/main/scala/chisel3/util/TransitName.scala
index 3b9a3869..992f48d2 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/chisel3/util/TransitName.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/chisel3/util/TransitName.scala
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ object TransitName {
     * @return the `from` parameter
     */
   def apply[T<:HasId](from: T, to: HasId): T = {
-    from.addPostnameHook((given_name: String) => {to.suggestName(given_name)})
+    // To transit a name, we need to hook on both the suggestName and autoSeed mechanisms
+    from.addSuggestPostnameHook((given_name: String) => {to.suggestName(given_name)})
+    from.addAutoPostnameHook((given_name: String) => {to.autoSeed(given_name)})
     from
   }
 
@@ -55,7 +57,9 @@ object TransitName {
     * @return the `from` parameter
     */
   def withSuffix[T<:HasId](suffix: String)(from: T, to: HasId): T = {
-    from.addPostnameHook((given_name: String) => {to.suggestName(given_name + suffix)})
+    // To transit a name, we need to hook on both the suggestName and autoSeed mechanisms
+    from.addSuggestPostnameHook((given_name: String) => {to.suggestName(given_name + suffix)})
+    from.addAutoPostnameHook((given_name: String) => {to.autoSeed(given_name + suffix)})
     from
   }