RE: [sv-bc] sv 3.1a section 3.1 on truncation warnings

All your feedbacks are good and valid. I would prefer to see specific
comments on specific sentences or paragraphs. Shalom comments are very
constructive, and we will do that the first round. Jonathan, if you have
specific information to provide please do so and follow our process
please.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sv-bc@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-bc@eda.org] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Bromley
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:17 PM
To: Shalom Bresticker; sv-bc@eda.org
Subject: RE: [sv-bc] sv 3.1a section 3.1 on truncation warnings

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shalom Bresticker [mailto:Shalom.Bresticker@freescale.com]

> In general, the language of SV 3.1a needs to be tightened up
> to conform to
> IEEE style guidelines
> (e.g, use of 'shall', 'may', 'can', etc.; normative vs.
> informative, etc.)

Indeed; but NOT, please, by the use of global search and replace. The
current LRM has some laughable uses of normative language such as
"shall" in places where the intent is plainly explanatory, to predict
the behaviour of some example code, rather than to
specify how the language works.

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