RE: [sv-ec] srandom for thread seeding

Mike,

The $srandom functionality was folded into the process class. Thus, the
examples showing process::self.srandom() are correct; that is the
correct mechanism provided for seeding a process. The system task
$srandom was removed from the standard. Nonetheless, section 11.9 seems
to be missing the prototype of the srandom method. This appears to have
been an editorial mistake. The correct prototype of the process class
should be:

	class process;
	    enum state { FINISHED, RUNNING,
	    static function process self();
	    function state status();
	    function void kill();
	    task await();
	    function void suspend();
	    task resume();
	    function void srandom( int seed );
	endclass

Thanks for catching this omission.

	Arturo

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sv-ec@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@eda.org] On Behalf Of
Michael Burns
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:14 PM
To: sv-ec@eda.org
Cc: Architecture Testbench-TBARDS
Subject: [sv-ec] srandom for thread seeding


Hi folks,

I've been comparing the Accelera SV3.1a standard and IEEE 1800, and it's

not clear what happened to srandom(). 3.1a provides both $srandom and 
process::self().srandom() for seeding a thread. IEEE 1800 appears to 
have removed $srandom(). process::self().srandom() is referred to in a 
few places in the 1800 text, but appears to have been removed from 
section 11.9 defining the process built-in class. What's the status of 
thread seeding in 1800?

Thanks,
Mike Burns
Freescale