Re: [Iverilog-devel] System Verilog versus Icarus

[Anthony J B. <net...@nc...>]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Stephen Williams wrote:

> We are busy working on fixing bugs there, though. It would be pretty
> kool too to add support for enumerations all the way through to the
> gtkwave viewer. That would solve a problem that a *lot* of Verilog
> users gripe about: Marking traces with useful names.

The viewer's supported strings in vcd files for years.  See the attached
file.  Obviously, whatever the datatype is for enum/string/whatever can be
properly handled in the $var declarations once they're defined.  The only
limitation is no spaces, but proxy characters or escapes can fix that
easily.

So unless you're planning on doing something wacky, it should be quite
painless.  Note that all the gtkwave-specific filetypes support strings
natively though none of the vcd converters can handle them yet.

-t