Define leading '_' as API for creating temporaries
Chisel and FIRRTL have long used signals with names beginning with an underscore as an API to specify that the name does not really matter. Tools like Verilator follow a similar convention and exclude signals with underscore names from waveform dumps by default. With the introduction of compiler-plugin prefixing in Chisel 3.4, the convention remained but was hard for users to use unless the unnnamed signal existed outside of any prefix domain. Notably, unnamed signals are most useful when creating wires inside of utility methods which almost always results in the signal ending up with a prefix. With this commit, Chisel explicitly recognizes signals whos val names start with an underscore and preserve that underscore regardless of any prefixing. Chisel will also ignore such underscores when generating prefixes based on the temporary signal, preventing accidental double underscores in the names of signals that are prefixed by the temporary.
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