[sv-ec] Minutes of Thursday April 21st , 2005

I have attached the unapproved minutes of Thursday's meeting 
(April 21st, 2005).
 The next meeting is a face-to-face scheduled for Monday 
 April 25th, 2005
 time: 10:00am to 5:00pm PST.  (Synopsys Sunnyvale 1, 
   Chardonnay conf. room)
 I will place the minutes on the web as well.
	www.eda.org/sv-ec/Minutes.html
- Mehdi



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Action items: (4/21/2005):
  1) AI(issue 266,): ALL review the latest updates from Cliff, comments
  2) AI(issue 240, Mantis 681) Please review and raise issues and/or
other proposals 
		before our face-to-face meeting on Monday.
  3) AI(issue 2, Mantis 219): Arturo to send write-up to Steve for
completion
  4) AI(issue 5, Mantis 319): Ray to place the proposal on svdb
  5) AI(issue 8, Mantis 370): Ray to place the proposal on svdb
  6) AI(issue 188, Mantis 595): Brad to place the proposal on svdb
  7) AI(issue 199, Mantis 607): Mehdi to request clarifications from
Charles
  8) AI(issue 10, Mantis 409): Steven to place proposal to the svdb.

 
==============  SUMMARY of action items and issue items ============
 == Approved and resolved issues === 
   on April 21, 2005:
	 36  ( Mantis 270 ) [has merit but not feasilbe at this time]
 	162  (Mantis 552  ) [Closed as no-bug]
   on April 18, 2005:
   	283  ( Mantis 615 & 662 ) [approved on 4/18/05]
	  1  ( Mantis 93  )  [approved on 4/18/05]
	281  ( Mantis 683 )  [approved on 4/18/05]
 	238  ( Mantis 671 )  [approved on 4/18/05]

   on April 15, 2005:
      235  ( Mantis- 666)  [approved on 4/15/05]
	236  ( Mantis- 642)  [approved on 4/15/05]
   
   on April 12, 2005:
    Issues approved:
	232  ( Mantis- 652 ) [approved on 4/12/05]
	236  ( Mantis- 642 ) [approved on 4/12/05]
	189  ( Mantis- 596 ) [approved on 4/12/05]

   on April 11, 2005:
    Issues approved:
	250  ( Mantis- 636 ) [approved on 4/5/05, re-approved 4/11/05]
	252  ( Mantis- 637 ) [approved on 4/5/05, re-approved 4/11/05]
	229  ( Mantis- 644 )
	230  ( Mantis- 646 )
	163  ( Mantis- 554 ) [one abstain -- Neil, (not read)]
    	255  ( Mantis- 641 ) [one abstain -- Neil, (not read)]

   on April 5, 2005:
	 11  ( Mantis- 410 )
	109  ( Mantis- 537 )
	161  ( Mantis- 550 )
	237  ( Mantis- 616 )
	250  ( Mantis- 636 )
	251  ( Mantis- 643 )
	252  ( Mantis- 637 )

	253  ( Mantis- 649 ) [combined with 254 into one Mantis (649)
	254  ( Mantis- 649 )
				[2 abstains: Francoise & Steven, no
knowledge of coverage]

	270  ( Mantis- 638 ) 
	271  ( Mantis- 639 ) [one abstain: Steven, not read the
proposal]
	272  ( Mantis- 640 )
	283  ( Mantis- 615 ) [Votes: 4 yes(Brad,Neil,Dave, Surrendra), &
Mehdi 
				3 abstain:(Ray,Francoise, Steven), and 1
No (cliff)]	

   Issues marked not feasible
	204

   Issues sent to other committees for review:
	125	294	(sv-ac)	 (vpi question)
	229	644	(sv-bc)  (struct initialization)
   
[NOTE: here is what sv-ec received on 229 from April 11th sv-bc meeting:
The SV-BC reviewed the proposal to address issue 229 in
its April 11th meeting.  It was not approved.  Here's
the message that the committee agreed to convey
to the EC:

  The SV-BC did not pass the proposed resolution to issue
  229 as captured in Mantis #644.  The motion failed 
  with only abstention.


Those abstaining felt that making such a change so late
in the lifecycle of the LRM was not a good idea.  They
had concerns about issues such as:
 -continuous assignment to variables
 -initializer passed with with Type through parameters
  which is a new paradigm.

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Issues to be resolved
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Issue #   Mantis # 
240    681      semantics of class [We can postpone this till 
  7    344   combined with 240 

233    317 

266      Notes issues (from Cliff) 
  2    219   (disable/fork-join item) 

  5    319   (root thread) 
  8    370   ( chap 13.13  seed/RNG) 

 10    409   (ref arguments, should be taken care of  with item 236 
188     595     (invalid example clocking block assignment -- proposal) 

 22    514   ( type for mailbox )  

 13    412 
 23    517 
 24    520 

 30    549 
 41    551 
 32    553 

94      511     ( type assignments) 
95      512     (object copying) 
96      516     (type compatibility description) 
97      518     ( queues, arrays, page 51) 
98      519     ( empty array 
99      521     ( queues, pattern assignment) 
100     522     ( queues concatenation) 
101     523     ( queue return type)    
        
122     251     (enhancement -- coverage)        
123     253     ( coverage) 
                                
171     564     (cross program references) 
187     594     ( interface access through clocking block) 

190     597     (unnamed clocking blocks in bnf) 
199     607     (accessing values in clocking block) 
200     608     (clocking block value resolution) 
201     609     (##cycle meaning in 16.14 
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