RE: [sv-bc] Resend: E-mail Ballot: Respond by 8am PDT, Tuesday, March 25

From: Bresticker, Shalom <shalom.bresticker_at_.....>
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 08:00:24 PDT
Hi, 

> SVDB 2269  No
> 
> The proposal may be fine but I am having trouble 
> understanding the following wording:
> 
> the cast shall return the value that a packed array type with 
> a single [n-1:0] dimension would hold after being assigned 
> the expression, where n is the cast size. The signedness 
> shall pass through unchanged, i.e., the signedness of the 
> result shall be the self-determined signedness of the 
> expression inside the cast. The array elements shall be of 
> type bit if the expression inside the cast is 2-state, 
> otherwise they shall be of type logic.
> 
> "a packed array type with a single [n-1:0] dimension" is this 
> another way (perhaps more precise way) of describing a packed 
> variable?

It's not a variable. A variable is a data object with a name. This is
the return value of a built-in system function.

> 
> "The array elements shall be of type ..." if it was just a 
> packed variable, why are we talking about the elements of the array?

Even packed variables could have elements of either type logic or bit. 

Regards,
Shalom
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