Re: [sv-ac] RE: [sv-bc] Suppression of unique/priority glitches

From: Gordon Vreugdenhil <gordonv_at_.....>
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 14:19:25 PDT
Oh that is an interesting spin.

If we coupled that with default behavior for things like
always_comb that do in fact have well defined combinational
behavior, I think that we might end up in a good place.

Gord.


Steven Sharp wrote:
> Thinking a little outside the box...
> 
> Gord suggested thinking about the delayed reporting as a delayed
> child subprocess, and the discarding of pending violations as
> disabling those subprocesses, much like "disable fork".
> 
> There has been disagreement about when to implicitly execute that
> disabling operation.  What if it were made an explicit operation,
> like "disable fork" is?  You could stick a "disable assert" into
> the code where you wanted to discard any pending unreported violations.
> 
> This seems like overkill for the typical usage of unique/priority,
> but perhaps it is warranted for more general usage of assertions.
> 
> Steven Sharp
> sharp@cadence.com
> 
> 

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