RE: [sv-bc] Mantis 331 updated for Draft 3

Dave,

Thanks for the work you have invested in this.

Question: You add in 20.2.1 the following text:

"Any argument expression of either a string data type or an unpacked
array of byte data type that has no corresponding format specification
shall be formatted as a character string. Any expression argument of any
other unpacked data type that has no corresponding format specification
shall be illegal."

What do you mean here by "corresponding format specification"?
Does "corresponding" mean only corresponding by position, or does it
mean also corresponding in type?
For example, if I write $display ("%d", string_variable);, is "%d" a
corresponding (but not appropriate) format specification or not?

Also, in the following sentence from Draft 3a:

"The contents of literal string arguments are output literally except
when certain escape sequences are inserted to display special characters
or to specify the display format for a subsequent expression."

Stu added the word 'literal'. (To be consistent with the rest of the
LRM, it should be "string literal" instead of "literal string".) By
doing so, the sentence excludes string data types. That should be fixed.

Thanks,
Shalom



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-bc@server.eda.org 
> [mailto:owner-sv-bc@server.eda.org] On Behalf Of Rich, Dave
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 9:34 AM
> To: sv-bc@server.eda-stds.org
> Subject: [sv-bc] Mantis 331 updated for Draft 3
> 
> Mantis 331 - Update $display and other file I/O system tasks 
> for aggregate data type
> 
> has been updated for draft 3. That section when through 
> substantial changes, so please review carefully.
> 
> http://www.eda-stds.org/svdb/view.php?id=331
> 
> Dave

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