Re: [sv-bc] RE: Email Vote: respond by 8AM PDT, Friday, July 30, 2010

Hi Shalom.

The new statement makes sense, because a parameter should
be able to store things such as delay triplets:

parameter MyDelay = 3:4:5;

On 08/02/2010 12:12 AM, Bresticker, Shalom wrote:
> Hi, Francoise.
>
>> SVDB 1685 ___Yes ___No
>> http://www.eda.org/svdb/view.php?id=1685
>> According to this mantis item , this is illegal:
>> parameter p = string'("hello");
>> Is this what we want?
>
> [SB] This Mantis item does not say that that this form is illegal.
> The Mantis item was filed on SV-2005, which contained the statement that
>
> "In an assignment to, or override of, a parameter without an explicit type declaration, the type of the right-hand expression shall be real or integral."
>
> That statement no longer exists in SV-2009.
> SV-2009 contains the following statements (excerpted from 6.20.2),
>
> "A parameter declaration with no type or range specification shall default to the type and range of the final value assigned to the parameter, after any value overrides have been applied."
>
> "A parameter with no range specification and with either a signed type specification or no type specification shall have an implied range with an lsb equal to 0 and an msb equal to one less than the size of the final value assigned to the parameter."
>
> The Mantis item wanted to clarify that
>
> parameter p = "hello"
>
> is legal.
>
> The motivation for that no longer exists and thus the Mantis item should be closed.
>
> A clarification or correction for the two sentences I quoted from SV-2009 should be a new Mantis item.
>
> Regards,
> Shalom
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