[sv-bc] RE: Email Vote: respond by 8AM PDT, Friday, July 30, 2010

Hi, Francoise.

> SVDB 1685 ___Yes ___No
> http://www.eda.org/svdb/view.php?id=1685
> According to this mantis item , this is illegal:
> parameter p = string'("hello");
> Is this what we want?

[SB] This Mantis item does not say that that this form is illegal.
The Mantis item was filed on SV-2005, which contained the statement that

"In an assignment to, or override of, a parameter without an explicit type declaration, the type of the right-hand expression shall be real or integral."

That statement no longer exists in SV-2009.
SV-2009 contains the following statements (excerpted from 6.20.2),

"A parameter declaration with no type or range specification shall default to the type and range of the final value assigned to the parameter, after any value overrides have been applied."

"A parameter with no range specification and with either a signed type specification or no type specification shall have an implied range with an lsb equal to 0 and an msb equal to one less than the size of the final value assigned to the parameter."

The Mantis item wanted to clarify that

parameter p = "hello"

is legal.

The motivation for that no longer exists and thus the Mantis item should be closed.

A clarification or correction for the two sentences I quoted from SV-2009 should be a new Mantis item.

Regards,
Shalom
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