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

Hi Shalom,

I will be adding an errata for this item. It should be there
sometime today.

Neil

Shalom.Bresticker@freescale.com wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
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>
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