RE: [sv-bc] Function return values

Yes, they (we) do. But those names are not for the consumption of users.
They are parsed by tools, which know how to interpret them and rebuild
the call stack from the name. Sadly, that is not the case for VCD.

	Arturo

-----Original Message-----
From: Bresticker, Shalom [mailto:shalom.bresticker@intel.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 11:13 PM
To: Arturo Salz; sv-bc@eda-stds.org
Subject: RE: [sv-bc] Function return values

I understand. But those vendors who have implemented a transaction
recording scheme have a way of handling that, don't they?

Shalom


> And, BTW, dumping automatics is not so much a lifetime issue as a
naming
> problem. It would not be difficult to arrange for the simulator to
dump
> automatics every time an automatic task or function is called. But,
when
> the same function is called more than once in the same time slot (or
> recursively), the names used in the dump must be unique, simple, and
> meaningful to designers. Finding such a naming scheme is a challenge.

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