RE: [sv-ec] behavior of program with no initial blocks

Interesting question.

I believe it should never implicitly exit (as it never started). The
effect of the implicit exit would only be visible in one corner case:
when the program with no initial blocks is the only program in the
system, and, in that case I believe it would be undesirable to end the
simulation at time 0.

	Arturo

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sv-ec@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@eda.org] On Behalf Of
Steven Sharp
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:11 PM
To: sv-ec@eda.org
Subject: [sv-ec] behavior of program with no initial blocks

What is supposed to happen when a program has no initial blocks?  Does
it
exit before it starts, because all its initial blocks are finished?  Or
does it never implicitly exit, because its (nonexistent) last initial
block never exits?  Or should it be illegal?

I have filed Mantis item 1574 on this.

Steven Sharp
sharp@cadence.com