Re: [Iverilog-devel] Patch for const integer foreign = "" attributes

[Stephen W. <st...@ic...>]

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Cary R. wrote:
> --- Stephen Williams <st...@ic...> wrote:
>  
>> My SystemVerilog draft is too old to show this, but I think the
>> attribute assignment may include a type declaration along with the
>> assignment. That would mean that in principle the existing attribute
>> code can be extended in a SV-ish way to make the given code work.
>> I think *this* is what we want to do.
> 
> I agree we should code to a standard. If this is supported in SV we need
> to know what the particulars are. Unfortunately it appears the two people
> most likely to implement it do not have access to the SV standard
> (1800-2005).
> 
>>From memory I don't think the SV standard is too expensive, but it uses
> the 1364-2005 standard as a base document. I only have a copy of
> 1364-2001, so I'm probably not going to spend the money to get both
> standards just to enhance iverilog.

I have a copy of IEEE1364-1005 (printed) so I can make proper use of
the SystemVerilog standard. These standards are somewhat painful to
buy without funding, but I'll look into it.

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