Subject: Re: .*
From: Kevin Cameron x3251 (dkc@galaxy.nsc.com)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 10:07:32 PST
> From owner-vlog-pp@eda.org Mon Mar 25 09:35:02 2002
> From: "Kevin Cameron" <Kevin.Cameron@nsc.com>
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>
> ".*" is essentially an upward connection from the child to the parent module during
> instantiation. It is not possible to tell ahead of time which signals in the parent will
> be connected to by a child instantiated with ".*", which works against doing modular
> compilation - i.e. you can't (optimally) pre-compile code using ".*" on it's boundaries.
>
This is possibly not a problem if there is an "import/extern" definition that declares
which ports require connection for the child, so I'd vote "yes" if ".*" only works when
the child port-map is known.
Kev.
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