[sv-ec](items 3 and 4) for Monday December 6, 2004 Conference Call

Hi,
 a) In item 3 for Monday sv-ec conf. call agenda
I would like to discuss the errata items listed below.
[the first 5 are from the recent email ballot, the last two
 are items listed with high pririties.]

      4 Add rs_rule precedence and example in Section 12.16
     25 Pass by reference behavior of dynamically allocated objects
    172 assignment of values to fixed bins is not specified
    252 Default bin of a coverpoint in cross
    317 Class as bit-stream type
 
    261/262 -Proposal was not approved, move priority to low?
    275 string place holder -- move priority to low?
  
b) SV-EC members will need to review the modifications done
on the p1800 draft LRM based on approved errata. The site for
specifications is: http://www.eda.org/sv-ieee1800/Specifications/
Currently draft 2 is placed as well.
I have listed below the approved errata list and assigned
members for review. We will discuss this on Monday.
thanks,
- Mehdi
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           SV-EC Errata: proposals approved by the committee
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      6   [Surrendra] Description of query and inst_query methods
      7   [Surrendra] Clarification to 20.4.1, new 20.10
      8   [Ray]       Randsequence grammar issues
      9   [Dave R]    Erratum Queue Methods		
     10   [Ray]       Typo in 12.16.7
     11   [Brad]      Typos in BNF
     17   [Brad]      extra semicolons in method_prototype (LRM-292)	
     18   [Brad]      const_identifier missing from A.9.3	
     22   [Dave R]    $length is now $size, but two occurrences are not
updated
     33   [Brad]      Inconsistent semantics for null events
     71   [Brad]      Extra semicolon in covergroup_declaration
(LRM-229)
     83   [Brad]      Indentation wrong in D.5.11 example
     84   [Brad]      for_step_assignment should allow subroutine_call
     85   [Brad]      Typo in 12.12.3
     86   [Brad]      Keywords 'string' and 'while' should be bold in
examples
     90   [Brad]      Keywords 'cross' and 'coverpoint' should be bold
in 20.2
	
    135   [Brad]      typo
    140   [Surrendra] typo in section 20
    141   [Surrendra] Typo in section 20
    165   [Surrendra] covergroup_declaration' missing as a 'class_item'
    173   [Ray]   is the order of declaration in a covergroup
significant?
    174   [Ray]   Split bullet describing a random variable into 2
separate bullets
    175   [Ray]   Ambiguous ordering of random variables (Ray)
    197   [Ray]   Is a String an array
    224   [Neil]  Grammar typo in Table 9-1
    231   [Surrendra] Clarify the second paragraph in Section 16.5	
    233   [Brad]   table is a keyword and other typos
    235   [Neil]   wait_order BNF
    250   [Neil]   bug in 8.5.2 example code
    260   [Francoise] distributions and constraints solving
    271   [Surrendra] Incorrect example of assigning a string to a
register in Section 3.7   
--------------- forwarded email ---------------------------------
Hi,
 We will have our regular meeting on Monday December  6th.
I will send out another reminder later today.
Meeting announcement for SV-EC.
 [Also announced on http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes.html ]
Meeting on Monday December 6, 2004.
Time: 11 am - 1:00pm PDT 
Toll free number 
USA: 1- 888-635-9997
International: 1- 763-315-6815
Participant code 6343466#
The proposed agenda:
1)  Review the IEEE patent policy
    ref:   http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt 
2)  Approve the minutes of the last meeting [November 22 2004 meeting]
		http://www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes.html
3)  Review/discuss and vote on Errata in the database.
    a) The errata on the email ballot
    b) High priority listed errata.
4)  Review of draft 1800 LRM 
    
- Mehdi Mohtashemi
  mehdi@synopsys.com