RE: [sv-ec] rand in struct with union members

I think that is what he meant. reals are thus implicitly excluded. the same for unpacked unions.

shalom 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arturo Salz [mailto:Arturo.Salz@synopsys.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:47 PM
> To: Daniel Mlynek; 'Steven Sharp'; Bresticker, Shalom; sv-ec@eda.org
> Subject: RE: [sv-ec] rand in struct with union members
> 
> That is not correct: real types are excluded. The LRM 
> explicitly limits random variables to be integral types.
> 
>         Arturo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-ec@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-ec@eda.org] On 
> Behalf Of Daniel Mlynek
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 11:36 PM
> To: 'Steven Sharp'; shalom.bresticker@intel.com; sv-ec@eda.org
> Subject: RE: [sv-ec] rand in struct with union members
> 
> In LRM ther is a list of types allowed to be random variable 
> there is no
> unpacked unions among them so why to add this explisit statement.
> There is no such statement ie for reals.
> 
> DANiel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Sharp [mailto:sharp@cadence.com]
> Sent: 9 września 2009 03:05
> To: shalom.bresticker@intel.com; sharp@cadence.com; sv-ec@eda.org;
> daniel.mlynek@aldec.com
> Subject: RE: [sv-ec] rand in struct with union members
> 
> 
> >From: "Daniel Mlynek" <daniel.mlynek@aldec.com>
> 
> >So you are saying that only unpacked unions cannot be made random. If
> >so then the whole sentence from which we started the discussion is
> >redundand and mention about unions should be removed.
> 
> We could change that sentence to say "unpacked union" instead 
> of "union",
> but we cannot remove it unless we add something else that 
> plugs the loophole
> and ensures that unpacked unions cannot be made rand.  Unless 
> we do that,
> the sentence is not redundant.
> 
> 
> >From Steven email I think that LRM was  saying that packed 
> union cannot
> >be made random if nested in unpacked struct - but this restriction is
> >controversial.
> 
> I don't see a technical reason for it, and have no problem 
> relaxing it.
> 
> 
> Steven Sharp
> sharp@cadence.com
> 
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