Excellent suggestion Neil. I would definitely be in favor of your rewording. Gord. Neil Korpusik wrote: > Hi Gord, > > Thanks for reviewing those changes. > Something like the following might be beter. > > From: > Object stability can be achieved as long as object and thread creation > and random number generation are done in the same order as before > To: > Object stability shall be preserved when object and thread creation > and random number generation are done in the same order as before > > Neil > > > > > On 12/04/08 13:06, Gordon Vreugdenhil wrote: >> >> >> Brophy, Dennis wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> Draft 8 of the IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog specification is available >>> for download from the IEEE working group site (login required) and >>> eda.org <http://eda.org/> (document password required). The >>> passwords for all access methods remain the same as you used for >>> Draft 7. >>> >>> This morning the Working Group agreed to allow the committees to have >>> a chance to review the set of changes that have gone into Draft 8. >>> In particular, the IEEE has requested that the words "ensure" and >>> "guarantee" be changed in several places. The Editor has made changes >>> based on this request. Some of those changes could have potentially >>> changed the original intent. >> >> >> I reviewed the ensure/guaranteed changes. There was one that bothers >> me a bit. In 18.14.1, the following change was made: >> >> Object stability is guaranteed as long as object and thread creation >> and random number generation are done in the same order as before >> >> TO: >> >> Object stability can be achieved as long as object and thread creation >> and random number generation are done in the same order as before >> >> That seems somewhat more weak that what I'd like to see here. >> >> The point of the original is that an implementation is *obligated* >> to preserve object stability under the given conditions. It is >> less clear that this is an implementation compliance statement in >> the rewording. >> >> Gord. >> > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Vreugdenhil 503-685-0808 Model Technology (Mentor Graphics) gordonv@model.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Thu Dec 4 14:03:31 2008
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