[Iverilog-devel] Looking for a $fatal opinion

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

I have a bug report for Icarus Verilog requesting that $fatal cause
the vvp program to return EXIT_FAILURE or some-such, instead of
EXIT_SUCCESS like all other variants of $finish. It's easy enough to
implement that, and I have done so, but that has led to at least one
test in ivtest to "fail to run" even though it ran fine and is just
returning a failure status.

So I guess my question is, will we be asking for trouble if $fatal()
causes vvp to "fail" in the eyes of the command line or shell script
that executes it? It is after all a success in the sense that it
successfully ran the simulation program.

Humm...


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