Re: [myhdl-list] Default value of intbv - proposed change

[Kevin S. <sta...@gm...>]

Jan,

Any reason to not model signal resolution with 'Z', 'H', 'L' as in VHDL, or
is this handled in some other manner?

Kevin

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Jan Decaluwe <ja...@ja...> wrote:

> There is just one last thing I'd like to change
> before feature-freezing 0.7.
>
> At some point the default intbv value was 0, but
> then I changed it to None. I thought this would be
> necessary to support tristates.
>
> In the mean time, tristates can be supported rather well
> by ShadowSignals, and the None default for intbv's doesn't
> really make sense. It only takes away some performance
> due to superfluous testing.
>
> I propose to change the default value back to 0.
>
> The difference:
>
>  intbv() currently has None as initial value
>         would now have 0 as initial value
>
> Objections?
>
> Jan
>
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