Re: [sv-bc] Built-in types are not packed arrays

> I see your point, but section 4.2 is clearly distinguishing packed arrays
> and built-in types. For example, you can't declare a packed array of bytes.
>
> byte legal [15:0];
> byte [15:0] illegal;

I regret all this special-casing for built-in types. Wouldn't be
nice if SV simply defined a header file which contained:

    typedef logic signed [31:0] integer;
    typedef bit signed [31:0] int;

etc., so that the predefined types behaved just like user types?

And I fondly remember "packed array of char" from pascal, but it looks
like SV doesn't allow "packed array of byte".

Paul
Received on Fri Sep 24 14:35:23 2004