VERILOG2116: Macro concatenation tokens that are not actually concatenating anything should be reviewed

Summary

Reliability	Security	Maintainability	Code attribute	Effort to fix	Tags

MEDIUM	-	-	Intentionality \| Logical	5min	synthesis, vscode, linter, simulation

Description

Noncompliant code example

`define FOO(a) a `` +
int foo;
int bar = `FOO(foo) foo;

Points out macro concatenation tokens that aren't actually concatenating anything due to whitespace on either side, or tokens that can't be concatenated in the first place.

Parameters

No parameters.