RE: [sv-bc] [Fwd: Issues with IEEE 1364-2005]

>From: "Jonathan Bromley" <jonathan.bromley@doulos.com>

>Just one data point: I tried two other simulators, testing &&
>and || with both left and right operands being functions with
>side-effects that returned a single-bit result, both on the
>right-hand side of a procedural assignment and as the test
>in an "if" statement.  One consistently applied short-circuit
>evaluation, one consistently evaluated both operands every time.

This is unfortunate.  A de facto standard would have been easier
to officially standardize.  On the other hand, the lack of a
de facto standard makes it more important to officially standardize
something.

Steven Sharp
sharp@cadence.com