Re: [sv-ec] Re: [sv-bc] question on str.putc()

Has someone added these to the errata database?

Thanks,
Shalom

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Surrendra Dudani wrote:

> Hi Shalom,
> You have pointed out another error in Section 3.7. bit-stream casting
> (Section 3.16) for strings and other dynamic types is defined for the
> purposes of such an assignment. So, the correct form should be,
>
> r = reg' (a);
>
> Surrendra
> At 06:01 AM 10/18/2004 +0200, you wrote:
> >3.7 has the example
> >
> >reg [15:0] r ;
> >string a ;
> >
> >r = a ; // OK
> >
> >If you say that assignment does not appear in Table 3-2 (String operators),
> >I would say that assignment is not considered an operator.
> >3.6, for example, also separates assignments from operators.
> >
> >If you refer to the sentence, "A string, string literal, or packed array
> >can be assigned to a string variable," that is referring to what can be
> >assigned to a string variable, not what a string can be assigned to.
> >
> >Shalom
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Surrendra Dudani wrote:
> >
> > > Below is my reasoning for the comments I made related to Shalom's question.
> > >
> > >
> > > string x = "abc";
> > > str[2] = "abc"; (1)
> > > str[2] = x; (2)
> > >
> > > str[2] is a character which in SV is a byte.
> > > Statement (1) is a Verilog statement, so it must follow Verilog semantics.
> > > Statement (2) should be illegal as an SV string variable cannot be
> > assigned
> > > directly to a byte, logic, etc.
> >
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