RE: [sv-bc] Mantis 1573

From: Steven Sharp <sharp_at_.....>
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 13:18:44 PST
>From: "Bresticker, Shalom" <shalom.bresticker@intel.com>

>> BTW, while I do know of implementations that do port coercion 
>> and others that do collapsing, I don't know of any that don't 
>> do either.  There are good reasons for that -- the real 
>> behavior becomes pretty strange and not acceptable to 
>> customers.  So I wouldn't belabor the "if neither occurs" 
>> case since I really don't think you could ever get a useful 
>> implementation if you didn't do either.
>
>According to that, you could never get the warning? But I have seen it.

In other words, you have seen an implementation that did not do either
in some cases, and gave you a warning that the behavior might cause
problems.  I would be curious if it really did a full analysis of whether
the port direction was wrong, a limited local analysis, or rather blindly.
Without a full analysis, I would expect a lot of false warnings, which
would then start being ignored.

I would also be surprised if this is a successful commercial tool, for
the same reasons Gord describes.

Steven Sharp
sharp@cadence.com


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