Re: [sv-ec] Ballot issue #106

I agree, this is out of scope, unless there is some other
ballot item that mentions these points.

Neil



On 04/24/09 09:29, David Scott wrote:
> Well, again, I think the instructions from P1800 are to work on ballot 
> issues only.  Neil can confirm.
> 
> I don't think the first point is very unclear.  Look for the phrase 
> "will not track" in the paragraph about covergroup arguments.
> 
> The second case may actually be unclear (I started off writing that it 
> wasn't.)  The visibility of the arguments should follow the same rules 
> as resolving arguments in any other scope.  However, the coverpoint is a 
> sub-scope of the covergroup scope, so the bin name should arguably hide 
> (or override) the name in the higher scope.  On the other hand, bin 
> names really aren't visible in the language, except in cross select 
> expressions, so maybe they don't.  Yes, this should probably be 
> clarified, but it is not a ballot issue against 1800-2009.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> Swapnajit Chakraborti wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>  
>> Did you get a chance to look at the two points that I raised alongwith 
>> #106? These were not part of the
>> ballot, but were posted to the reflector as comments. I am mentioning 
>> them once again for your reference.
>>  
>> - Use of "input" type arguments as part of coverpoint expressions. I 
>> do not see an
>>   issue with this but just wanted to clarify as LRM is silent on this. 
>> LRM just shows
>>   "ref" arguments being used as coverpoint expressions.
>> - Use of covergroup arguments as bin name. Probably we should mention 
>> in LRM
>>   that this should be an error. An example of this is given below:
>>   covergroup cg (int f1,..)@..
>>      coverpoint a {
>>         bins f1 = {..};  // Note "f1" is used as bin name
>>      }
>>   endgroup
>>  
>> Regds,
>> Swapnajit
>>
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>>     *From:* owner-sv-ec@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@eda.org] *On
>>     Behalf Of *Scott, David
>>     *Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:56 AM
>>     *To:* sv-ec@eda.org
>>     *Subject:* [sv-ec] Ballot issue #106
>>
>>     This is the one about covergroup arguments using "output" ...
>>      
>>     http://www.eda-stds.org/mantis/view.php?id=2710
>>      
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