Re: [Iverilog-devel] System Verilog versus Icarus

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

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Anthony J Bybell wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I know you've got string support in gtkwave and that may
be a great way to support symbolic enums. I haven't thought it
through because there's always something else to do:-/

I see that Cary is getting gtkwave doing nifty-magical waveform
things, too, so it all seems to be working well together.

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