RE: [sv-ec] Local Protected constraints

Gopi,

The constraint BNF explicitly excludes the local and protected
modifiers. The main reason for their exclusion is because constraints
behave like virtual methods that are called by the built-in randomize
method. If a constraint were declared local/protected it would still be
visible to randomize and participate in the constraint equations. The
only limitation would be to call the constraint_mode on local/protected
constraints from certain methods, and this does not seem very useful and
probably create more confusion with regards to overridden methods.

	Arturo

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From: owner-sv-ec@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@eda.org] On Behalf Of Neil
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Subject: [sv-ec] Local Protected constraints

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-------- Original Message --------
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:52:00 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Local Protected constraints
From: "Gopikrishna Kamisetty" <kgopi@syschip.com>
To: sv-ec@server.eda.org



Is it possible to declare constraints as local or protected?

Regards,
Gopi Krishna


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