Re: [Iverilog-devel] SystemVerilog functions via vhdlpp

[Cary R. <cy...@ya...>]

That sounds like a good explanation to me. I'm hoping very soon that work gets back to a more normal schedule so I an start to think about Icarus again.

Cary





On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 12:56 PM, Martin Whitaker <mai...@ma...> wrote:
Cary R. wrote:
> That vlog95 support could be for a few reasons. It used to work that way, I expected it to be
> supported since it is in the standard so added the appropriate support to match named blocks or
> something I don't remember. I'm not exactly sure which it was, but given the code/comments I
> would expect the first option since the comments are fairly explicit about how this should work
> for SV tasks/functions.

It appears that the compiler generates the initialisation code for tasks, but not for functions. 
There's a test in the test suite that checks the behaviour for tasks, which is no doubt why you 
supported this in the vlog95 target.


Martin