RE: [sv-bc] Constant method calls

No, because the value of the enum variable is not constant.

Shalom 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-bc@server.eda.org 
> [mailto:owner-sv-bc@server.eda.org] On Behalf Of Surya Pratik Saha
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:39 AM
> To: Greg Jaxon
> Cc: sv-bc@server.eda.org; sarani@cal.interrasystems.com
> Subject: Re: [sv-bc] Constant method calls
> 
> Hi Greg,
> I re-read the LRM regarding 'next'. It indeed does not say 
> about the no. 
> of iteration. So I think it can be considered as 'constant'. 
> Does it mean method on any enum variable to be constant. I 
> think so, but your earlier mail mentions that the variable 
> also has to be constant though. 
> What do you think?
> 
> Regards
> Surya
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re:[sv-bc] Constant method calls
> From: Greg Jaxon <Greg.Jaxon@synopsys.com>
> To: Surya Pratik Saha <spsaha@cal.interrasystems.com>, sv-bc@eda.org
> Cc: sarani@cal.interrasystems.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:37:19 AM
> > Surya,
> >
> >    You keep bringing up the idea that the result of an enum next() 
> > method depends on the number of calls made to it.  I don't see any 
> > support for that idea in the LRM or in the committee's 
> discussions.  
> > The Next() method does not update the variable (or 
> constant) to which 
> > it applied.  It has no static storage with which it might 
> "remember" how often it has been called.
> > It is simply a function of two arguments - an enum and an optional 
> > (positive?) integer count, N.  It locates the enum's value 
> in the list 
> > of legal values, then it steps forward in that 
> (declaration-ordered) 
> > list "N" places and returns that as its functional result.
> >
> >    The existing definition is incomplete in not specifying how 
> > negative values of N affect Next().  The special case of 
> Next() for an 
> > out-of-range enum value is also not clear - is the answer 
> the same as 
> > .First() for /all/ values of N, or only for N=1 (the default)?  Is 
> > V.Next(0) == V for all V, or only for legal value of the 
> enum type of V?
> >
> > typedef enum { A,B,C } Enum_t;
> > Enum_t V = Enum_t'(5);
> >
> > $display( V.Next, V.Next(-1), V.Next(2) );
> >
> > But it would have mentioned depending upon previous calls 
> to Next if 
> > that influenced the result.
> >
> > Greg Jaxon
> >
> >
> >
> > Surya Pratik Saha wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Steven,
> >> Even 'e' is a constant like parameter - parameter enum {A, 
> B, C} e = 
> >> A;
> >>
> >> then also I think 'next' should not be a constant, because 
> the result 
> >> will depend on the no. of call which is not constant. What 
> do you think?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Surya
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -------- Original Message  --------
> >> Subject: Re:[sv-bc] Constant method calls
> >> From: Steven Sharp <sharp@cadence.com>
> >> To: Greg.Jaxon@synopsys.com, spsaha@cal.interrasystems.com
> >> Cc: sharp@cadence.com, sarani@cal.interrasystems.com, 
> sv-bc@eda.org, 
> >> sv-ec@eda.org
> >> Date: Saturday, February 09, 2008 6:56:05 AM
> >>     
> >>>> From: Surya Pratik Saha <spsaha@cal.interrasystems.com>
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>>  
> >>>       
> >>>> module top;
> >>>>    enum {A, B, C} e;
> >>>>    initial begin
> >>>>       for (int i = 0; i < e.next(); i ++) begin:b
> >>>>          reg[e.next(): 0] r;
> >>>>       end
> >>>>    end
> >>>> endmodule
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> Surya, e.next cannot be a constant expression because e is not a 
> >>> constant. The case that could possibly be allowed would 
> be something 
> >>> like A.next, whose result would be the constant B (if it 
> is legal to 
> >>> apply an enum method to an enum literal, which is unclear).
> >>>
> >>> Steven Sharp
> >>> sharp@cadence.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> 
> 
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