RE: [sv-bc] Email Vote: Respond by 8AM PDT Wed Apr 20

Well, those types are described in the table as having a user-defined size.

Shalom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bradpiercephd@gmail.com [mailto:bradpiercephd@gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Brad Pierce
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:10 PM
> To: Bresticker, Shalom
> Cc: Maidment, Matthew R; SV-BC
> Subject: Re: [sv-bc] Email Vote: Respond by 8AM PDT Wed Apr 20
>
> And does it really make sense for a scalar to have a signedness? How
> can a bit be signed or unsigned?
>
> -- Brad
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Brad Pierce <brad_pierce@acm.org>
> wrote:
> > "The data types time, bit, reg, and logic default to unsigned, as do
> > arrays of these types."
> >
> > The "as do arrays of these types" sort of makes sense for scalar
> > types, but it seems redundant and really means "packed arrays". Any
> > reason we shouldn't strike that phrase?
> >
> > -- Brad
> >
> > 2011/4/13 Bresticker, Shalom <shalom.bresticker@intel.com>:
> >> Brad,
> >>
> >> The preceding sentence says, "The data types byte, shortint, int,
> integer, and longint default to signed."
> >>
> >> That is, the paragraph describes the signedness of each of the
> integral data types.
> >>
> >> "time" is the only one missing.
> >>
> >>
> >> Shalom
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: owner-sv-bc@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-bc@eda.org] On Behalf Of
> >>> Brad Pierce
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 6:23 PM
> >>> To: Maidment, Matthew R
> >>> Cc: SV-BC
> >>> Subject: Re: [sv-bc] Email Vote: Respond by 8AM PDT Wed Apr 20
> >>>
> >>> I vote yes on all, except the last one
> >>>
> >>> > SVDB  3384 ___Yes   _X__No
> >>> > http://www.eda.org/svdb/view.php?id=3384
> >>>
> >>> The time type doesn't fit naturally into a sentence about scalar
> >>> types. An array of times defaults to unsigned? Doesn't every packed
> >>> array of anything default to unsigned, and unpacked arrays don't
> have
> >>> signedness?
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