[sv-bc] issue 14


Subject: [sv-bc] issue 14
From: Francoise Martinolle (fm@cadence.com)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 13:51:18 PST


We talked about this issue at the last meeting and we said that if a type
is defined in an interface and used in a module which passes this interface
as aport, this type must be redefined locally.

I thought we meant that we needed an actually redefinition of the type but
when I looked at the example given it shows an alias of the type and not a
redefinition.
interface intf_i;
   typedef int data_t;
endinterface

module sub(intf_i_i p)
   typedef p.data_t my_data_t;
   my_data_t data; //type of 'data'' will be int when connected to
interface above
endmodule

Instead of typedef p.data my_data_t; This is just creating an alias without
saying anything about the actual type.

I would have expected to find the typedef REDEFINED in the module as an int
so that we know it is an int without having to elaborate the interface.

typedef int p.data_t; This is telling me that the type data_t defined in
the interface p is an int.

Otherwise we still have XMR to typedefs.

Francoise
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