RE: [sv-cc] Re: [sv-bc] Mantis 3087 Uses of comment pragmas instead of attributes

From: Maidment, Matthew R <matthew.r.maidment@intel.com>
Date: Thu Aug 04 2011 - 10:01:46 PDT

Here's some idea of what attributes might look like

(*DPIOO, export, exclude="f2", language="SystemC" foreign="P::Packet"*)
class packet;
extern function int f1();
extern function void f2();
endclass

class packet;
  (*DPIOO, export, foreign="GetByte" *)
 function byte get_byte(int j);
  ...
  endfunction
// pragma DPI-OO export function get_byte foreign=GetByte
endclass

The benefits of attributes include clearer semantics as to which syntax elements they apply as to where they apply and that they can be interrogated by VPI.

I'd like to see attributes given more consideration given that strings can store most everything and there is no ambiguity regarding placement.

Matt

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From: owner-sv-cc@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-cc@eda.org] On Behalf Of Jim Vellenga
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 8:55 AM
To: brad_pierce@acm.org; Rich, Dave
Cc: SystemVerilog CC DWG (sv-cc@eda.org); sv-bc@eda.org
Subject: RE: [sv-cc] Re: [sv-bc] Mantis 3087 Uses of comment pragmas instead of attributes
Syntax 22-8 comes a lot closer to what's in the proposal.  Using Syntax 22-8, the complex values supported by the proposal could be represented as strings.  So that would work out OK.
From: owner-sv-cc@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-cc@eda.org] On Behalf Of Brad Pierce
Sent: Tuesday, 2 Aug 2011 3:22 PM
To: Rich, Dave
Cc: SystemVerilog CC DWG (sv-cc@eda.org); sv-bc@eda.org
Subject: [sv-cc] Re: [sv-bc] Mantis 3087 Uses of comment pragmas instead of attributes
Can the impoverished attribute syntax of Syntax 5-3 really carry the weight? Why not use/extend the `pragma directive of Syntax 22-8?
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Rich, Dave <Dave_Rich@mentor.com<mailto:Dave_Rich@mentor.com>> wrote:
Why does this proposal continue to promote the use comment pragmas instead of attributes? I thought the use of attributes is to be encouraged because you can't construct macros to deal with comments. Or are we giving up on attributes?
Dave Rich
Verification Technologist
Mentor Graphics Corporation
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