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Diffstat (limited to 'chiselFrontend')
| -rw-r--r-- | chiselFrontend/src/main/scala/chisel3/core/Module.scala | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/chiselFrontend/src/main/scala/chisel3/core/Module.scala b/chiselFrontend/src/main/scala/chisel3/core/Module.scala index 89dd2dee..3bdc86d6 100644 --- a/chiselFrontend/src/main/scala/chisel3/core/Module.scala +++ b/chiselFrontend/src/main/scala/chisel3/core/Module.scala @@ -180,7 +180,13 @@ abstract class BaseModule extends HasId { def desiredName = this.getClass.getName.split('.').last /** Legalized name of this module. */ - final lazy val name = Builder.globalNamespace.name(desiredName) + final lazy val name = try { + Builder.globalNamespace.name(desiredName) + } catch { + case e: NullPointerException => throwException( + s"Error: desiredName of ${this.getClass.getName} is null. Did you evaluate 'name' before all values needed by desiredName were available?", e) + case t: Throwable => throw t + } /** Returns a FIRRTL ModuleName that references this object * @note Should not be called until circuit elaboration is complete |