Re: [Iverilog-devel] 'image attribute

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

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First guess, I think the best would be to implement $sformatf.
It is something that we would need anyhow.
On 12/07/2015 08:52 AM, Maciej Sumi?ski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am wondering what would be the right way to implement VHDL
> 'image attribute, which returns a string representation of a
> variable.
> 
> The first idea is to use SV $sformatf system function, which
> returns a string based on the formatting string (e.g. "%d" and
> input data, but it is currently not available in Icarus. I could
> add it, but as far as I know, the VPI standard does not allow to
> write functions that return strings.
> 
> What's your opinion? Should I extend VPI in Icarus to allow
> returning strings or is there another, more elegant solution to the
> problem?
> 
> Regards, Orson
> 
> 
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