Re: [Iverilog-devel] Looking for a $fatal opinion

[Martin W. <ic...@ma...>]

The IEEE standard seems quite clear on this (for once!) - it should return 
an error code.

Stephen Williams wrote:
> 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...