Subject: RE: [sv-ec] Agenda for meeting 10 February 2003
From: Jay Lawrence (lawrence@cadence.com)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 17:42:03 PST
I think the intent here was to narrow down the choices (as we did with
fork/join choices last week). It is very telling to me that 4 of the 6
votes for & come from the "user/consultant community" and all of the
'ref' votes are from vendors. Quite frankly, I'm just thrilled 'var' has
virtually been eliminated so that we can preserve it for replacing 'reg'
as keyword in future generations of the language.
I could easily be convinced to change my vote to '&'.
The only remaining issue as far as I'm concerned is a coordination issue
with sv-bc. In that world, we had tentatively agreed that 'var' would be
used on ports to indicate that a variable could be connected to the port
and had "shared variable" semantics. There was some discussion that this
should be the same as the "pass-by-reference" world.
There is also a desire for sv-cc to be able to specify
pass-by-reference.
If we can reconcile these issues with the other committees then I'm
happy with '&' for pass by reference to tasks and functions.
jay
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Jay Lawrence
Architect - Functional Verification
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
(978) 262-6294
lawrence@cadence.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Korpusik [mailto:Neil.Korpusik@eng.sun.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:31 PM
> To: sv-ec@eda.org; david.smith@synopsys.com
> Subject: Re: [sv-ec] Agenda for meeting 10 February 2003
>
>
> Hi David,
>
> It looks like you are missing Kev's vote from your
> summary. I believe that he voted for '&' which leaves
> us with a 6-6 tie between 'var' and '&'.
>
> Is there anyone out there that is willing to change
> their vote from 'ref' to '&' ?
>
> If you voted for 'ref' simply because you didn't give
> it much thought, or don't really care one way or the other
> perhaps you should abstain or give it a bit more thought.
> I saw several good reasons given for going with '&' and
> didn't see any justification for var/ref.
>
> Neil
>
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> There will be an extra meeting for the SV-EC committee from
> 11:00am until
> 1:00pm PDT on Monday 10 February 2003.
>
> Meeting will start promptly at 11:00am and may run over in
> order to complete
> review of all three chapters.
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> Agenda
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>
>
> 1. Review and approve minutes from Feb 3 meeting (as ammended
> on web site).
> 2. Review and resolve email voting results on var/ref/& (see attached)
> 3. Review open action item status
> 4. Review LRM
> a. Review 11, 12
> b. Vote on acceptance of Chapters 1-11, 12 (with
> condition that all
> relate action items will be approved)
>
> 5. Address any other issues before committee
>
> For the rest of the review process discussion will be limited to the
> following items:
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> clarification
> problems
> solutions to clarification and problems
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> No new proposals will be entertained.
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> A copy of the LRM is available at:
> <http://www.sutherland-hdl.com/download/SystemVerilog_3.1_draft1.pdf>
> http://www.sutherland-hdl.com/download/SystemVerilog_3.1_draft1.pdf
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> Please review the information available on the website:
> < <http://www.eda.org/sv-ec> http://www.eda.org/sv-ec>
> <http://www.eda.org/sv-ec> http://www.eda.org/sv-ec.
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