Re: [myhdl-list] intbv.wrap()

[Christopher L. <loz...@fr...>]

Thank you to Tom Dillon and to Chris Felton for explaining the wrapping 
stuff.  It took me forever to understand it.  Now I know why.

I totally understand how hardware engineers would want to do that.  But 
for the software engineer, it is a terrible idea.  Different people 
really do see the world differently.

As a software guy I just want a 32 bit integer that yields an error 
condition when it overflows.  That is what I expect.  And of course if 
it is made up of a sign object and a mantissa so much the better.

I am not trying to change the intbv library.  It is perfect for its 
users.  I am just pointing out that we software engineers see the world 
differently from the hardware engineers.  So maybe eventually there can 
be two different integer libraries, with different models behind them, 
and maybe different users.  Those building application specific circuits 
would use one, those building generic microprocessors could use the other.

Hope that helps.

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