RE: [sv-bc] Unofficial Meeting Monday Jan 10 - 9am PST

The BNF is

interface_port_header ::=
          interface_identifier [ . modport_identifier ]
        | interface [ . modport_identifier ]

Shouldn't you be able to use a generated modport in a non-generic interface port declaration?

Shalom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-bc@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-bc@eda.org] On Behalf Of
> Brad Pierce
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:51 AM
> To: Jonathan Bromley
> Cc: sv-bc@eda.org
> Subject: Re: [sv-bc] Unofficial Meeting Monday Jan 10 - 9am PST
>
> No, it's a semantic issue, because the current BNF can already accept
> your example, if we agree that the 'interface' keyword in a generic
> interface_port_header can stand in for, not only an interface
> instance, but also for a *scope* of an interface instance.
>
> -- Brad
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Brad Pierce <brad_pierce@acm.org>
> wrote:
> > Jonathan,
> >
> > On p. 29 of that presentation ( http://bit.ly/eipdSE ) , you show a
> > very clever trick of using generic interface port declarations to
> > receive a generated modport.
> >
> > I think the current BNF in A.1.3 (interface_port_header) never
> > contemplated the possibility of generate scopes, and to make your
> > trick work within the official standard, we'd need to correct that
> > oversight.
> >
> > -- Brad

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