Re: [myhdl-list] Slicing an unsigned intbv to a signed one

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

Christopher L. Felton wrote:

> Below is the output example for a small change that I made to the bit 
> vector class
>>>> from myhdl import *
>>>> x = intbv(0, min=-8, max=8)
>>>> x[3] = 1
>>>> x
> intbv(-8L)
>>>> x[3] = 0
>>>> x
> intbv(0L)
> 
> To implement the above I simply modified __setitems__ and used the _min 
> and _nrbits values determine what type of number is being represented. 
>  If the number is signed multiply the value by -1 if the msb is being 
> modified.  

Could you show your patch (just a diff)? I don't see how this
would be correct for non-powers of 2.

Jan

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