Re: [sv-ec] errata 197 - another section is impacted

Neil,

I don't believe the string errata applies in this case. The paragraph you
quote states that only "for the purposes of bit-streaming", a string is
considered a dynamic array of bytes. It does not imply that the string
implementation is a dynamic array of bytes, only that bit-streaming a
string has the same semantics as a dynamic array of bytes, and those
semantics have already been defined. If that sentence is modified then
we'll have to re-specify the streaming semantics for strings.

    Arturo

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From: "Neil Korpusik" <Neil.Korpusik@Sun.com>
To: <sv-ec@eda.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:43 PM
Subject: [sv-ec] errata 197 - another section is impacted

Section 3.16 Bit-stream casting, contains the following sentence:

"For the purposes of a bit-stream cast, a string is considered a dynamic
array of bytes."

This sentence will need to be updated in a way similar to the changes being
worked out in errata 197 for section 3.7. The problem being addressed is
that a string is not defined to be an array but these two sections of the
LRM refer to a string as a dynamic array.

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