RE: [sv-ec] RE: [sv-bc] tf_port_item footnote 33

I think you would have to modify paragraphs 2 and 3 in 24.7 (Tasks and
functions in interfaces) as well?

Shalom
 

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> [mailto:owner-sv-ec@server.eda.org] On Behalf Of Steven Sharp
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> Brad.Pierce@synopsys.com
> Subject: RE: [sv-ec] RE: [sv-bc] tf_port_item footnote 33
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> 
> >Do you mean that you'd like to modify Footnote 33 to say 
> "except within 
> >a dpi_import_export"?
> 
> Is that really the only place that would need to be modified? 
>  That does support the idea that there was no intent that the 
> names could be left off for Verilog task/function prototypes. 
>  As you said, the fact that this footnote doesn't disallow it 
> doesn't make it legal, when there is other text that seems to 
> disallow it.  So modifying the footnote this way could be 
> considered a clarification, rather than a change.
> 
> As you note here, the LRM does say elsewhere that the 
> argument names can be left off of DPI imports.  It specifies 
> that arguments can be bound by name only if all the formals 
> were named.  And of course DPI export arguments can't be 
> bound by name in C calls.
> 
> Your proposed modification sounds good to me.
> 
> Steven Sharp
> sharp@cadence.com
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