Icarus Verilog
This report summarizes scanner evidence for steveicarus/iverilog, a C++ project with 3,709 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 136,059 lines of code across 1399 source files, recording 148 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.3 (Low pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.
Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.
Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.
Payload schema: 1.0.0 · Engine: 2.0.0 · Scoring: heuristic-density-v1 · Scan date: 2026-10-31.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 141 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 9 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 148 finding(s).
This chart tracks the legacy adjusted pattern score across scan runs. Changes can reflect source changes, scan coverage, or detector/scoring versions; they do not measure AI adoption or prove that a team refactored code. Compare runs only when their scoring versions are compatible. The dashed line tracks the raw pattern-hit count.
Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.
This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.
The scanner identified 148 distinct pattern matches across 7 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.
Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | PExpr.h | 81 | // This operation must be performed by the parser, to ensure that | COMMENT |
| LOW | PExpr.h | 101 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | PExpr.h | 121 | // as an integer. The lossless width calculation is inadequate in | COMMENT |
| LOW | PExpr.h | 161 | // This is the more generic form of the elaborate_expr method | COMMENT |
| LOW | ivl_target.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | ivl_alloc.h | 21 | #ifdef __cplusplus | COMMENT |
| LOW | netlist.h | 21 | */ | COMMENT |
| LOW | netlist.h | 41 | # include "nettypes.h" | COMMENT |
| LOW | netlist.h | 2221 | // This method returns true if the expression is | COMMENT |
| LOW | netlist.h | 2241 | // This method evaluates the expression and returns an | COMMENT |
| LOW | netlist.h | 2261 | // a signal that reads from its input. | COMMENT |
| LOW | netlist.h | 2881 | // of the function call, and is used for error messages. The | COMMENT |
| LOW | netlist.h | 2901 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | netlist.h | 2921 | // Synthesize as synchronous logic, and return true on success. | COMMENT |
| LOW | ivl_dlfcn.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | pform.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Statement.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | pform_types.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | netclass.h | 41 | // Set the property of the class during elaboration. Set the | COMMENT |
| LOW | acc_user.h | 61 | #define accTopModule 224 | COMMENT |
| LOW | acc_user.h | 81 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | acc_user.h | 101 | #define accSimTime 2 | COMMENT |
| LOW | PScope.h | 81 | // Symbols that are explicitly imported. This contains the package where | COMMENT |
| LOW | sv_vpi_user.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | sv_vpi_user.h | 41 | #endif | COMMENT |
| LOW | Module.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | veriuser.h | 41 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | veriuser.h | 61 | */ | COMMENT |
| LOW | veriuser.h | 161 | #define userrealfunction 3 | COMMENT |
| LOW | veriuser.h | 181 | #define TF_STRING tf_string | COMMENT |
| LOW | veriuser.h | 221 | #define tf_reg_node 101 | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 241 | /* These are valid codes for the format of the t_vpi_value structure. */ | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 261 | #define vpiX 3 | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 281 | #define vpiIterator 27 | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 301 | #define vpiTask 59 | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 321 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 341 | #define vpiTimePrecision 12 | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 361 | # define vpiTriReg 7 | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 381 | # define vpiRealConst 2 | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 401 | #define vpiLocalParam 70 | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 481 | #define cbForce 3 | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi_user.h | 681 | #define BR916_STOPGAP_FIX | COMMENT |
| LOW | vhdlpp/vtype.h | 61 | // this type. This method is used for example to compare | COMMENT |
| LOW | vhdlpp/expression.h | 81 | // This virtual method handles the special case of elaborating | COMMENT |
| LOW | vhdlpp/expression.h | 101 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | vhdlpp/expression.h | 121 | virtual int emit(std::ostream&out, Entity*ent, ScopeBase*scope) const =0; | COMMENT |
| LOW | Documentation/conf.py | 1 | # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- | COMMENT |
| LOW | Documentation/conf.py | 41 | extensions = [ | COMMENT |
| LOW | Documentation/conf.py | 101 | # relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files, | COMMENT |
| LOW | Documentation/conf.py | 121 | htmlhelp_basename = 'IcarusVerilogdoc' | COMMENT |
| LOW | driver/main.c | 61 | #ifdef HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H | COMMENT |
| LOW | driver/main.c | 81 | #if defined(__MINGW32__) && !defined(HAVE_GETOPT_H) | COMMENT |
| LOW | vvp/vvp_net.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | vvp/vvp_net_sig.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | vpi/wavealloca.h | 21 | * | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi/wavealloca.h | 41 | #endif | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi/lxt_write.h | 21 | */ | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi/lxt_write.h | 101 | #define LT_SECTION_DOUBLE_TEST (8) | COMMENT |
| LOW | vpi/lz4.h | 81 | * Enable exporting of functions when building a Windows DLL | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | ivtest/run_ivl.py | 63 | except FileExistsError: | CODE |
| HIGH | ivtest/run_ivl.py | 68 | except FileNotFoundError: | CODE |
| HIGH | ivtest/run_ivl.py | 73 | except FileExistsError: | CODE |
| HIGH | ivtest/run_ivl.py | 78 | except FileNotFoundError: | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | ivtest/vhdl_reg.pl | 108 | # Check if the system command core dumped! | COMMENT |
| LOW | ivtest/vhdl_reg.pl | 142 | # Check if the system command core dumped! | COMMENT |
| LOW | ivtest/vlog95_reg.pl | 133 | # Check if the system command core dumped! | COMMENT |
| LOW | ivtest/vlog95_reg.pl | 195 | # Check if the system command core dumped! | COMMENT |
| LOW | ivtest/vlog95_reg.pl | 214 | # Check if the system command core dumped! | COMMENT |
| LOW | ivtest/vvp_reg.pl | 144 | # Check if the system command core dumped! | COMMENT |
| LOW | ivtest/vvp_reg.pl | 183 | # Check if the system command core dumped! | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | ivtest/obsolete/sregress.pl | 74 | print("Error - Command line option file $num_opts doesn't exist.\n"); | CODE |
| MEDIUM | ivtest/obsolete/eregress.pl | 28 | print("Error - Command line option file $num_opts doesn't exist.\n"); | CODE |
| MEDIUM | ivtest/obsolete/vvptests/vvp.pl | 49 | print("Error - Command line option file $num_opts doesn't exist.\n"); | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | netlist.h | 2243 | // time knows how. Essentially, this is designed to fold | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | ivtest/flow_reg.py | 156 | CODE | |
| LOW | ivtest/vvp_reg.py | 51 | CODE | |
| LOW | ivtest/vvp_reg.py | 81 | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | ivtest/run_ivl.py | 85 | CODE | |
| LOW | ivtest/run_ivl.py | 133 | CODE |