Multi dimensional variable in function causing issues

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Author Name: Johan Wouters
Original Redmine Issue: 1414 from https://www.veripool.org

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Hi,

I added a small example of a structure that causes issues in our codebase. We use a function to calculate a localparam and Verilator seems to fail because the function contains a multi-dimensional variable.

The message I get is:
%Error: test.v:19: Expecting expression to be constant, but can't determine constant for FUNCREF 'problematic function'
%Error: test.v:13 ... Location of non-constant ASSIGN: LHS isn't simple variable

this is with Verilator 4.012 and swithes -sv -Wno-lint -cc test.v --top-module test

The code can be simulated, logic synthesis and logic equivalence checking also works fine

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Wilson Snyder (@wsnyder)
Original Date: 2019-06-15T13:38:27Z

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Sorry, forgot to reply to this when filed. This is duplicate of #�, basically at present you can't have unpacked arrays in constant functions. A woraround is to use a packed array.

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