Addendum to section 4.2: signed packed arrays


Subject: Addendum to section 4.2: signed packed arrays
From: Paul Graham (pgraham@cadence.com)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 13:25:20 PDT


We need to change the third paragraph in section 4.2 on packed arrays to
reflect a clarification from Pete Flake. The existing text reads:

    If a packed array is declared as signed, then the array viewed as a
    single vector shall be signed, as in Verilog 2001. Note that Verilog
    2001 defines that a part selects of an array is unsigned.
 
This paragraph should read:

    When a packed array is declared as signed then the individual elements
    of the array are signed, and the array as a whole, when viewed as a
    bit-vector, is signed.

The sentence about part selets of an array is irrelevant here and should be
dropped.

Paul



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