P1076 November 14, 2013 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• CliffordWalinsky * DanielKho * DavidBishop * JimLewis * PeterFlake

Agenda:

Action Item Review

• Done Cliff: Proposal for ordered port and parameter lists (like generics).
• Peter: Bugzilla 293 - Issue with path_name and instance_name wrt VHDL-2008 generate labels
• Cliff & Daniel: 289 - Context declaration requirements are not uniform
  • Daniel sent email - will transform to a proposal
• Done Daniel: 288 - bit string literals not correctly defined - translate email writeup to a proposal
• Done Cliff: 287 - process(all) non-parameter signal read error should be er...
• Daniel: 286 - incremental binding example is illegal
  • Daniel sent email - will transform to a proposal
• Done Jim: 285 - textio write[line,boolean...] is not backward compatible across language versions
• Done Jim: 284 - Sizing rules for fixed point reciprocal are wrong
• Peter: 283 - ?/= function in float_generic_pkg can give wrong answer
  • Peter, David & Jim believe that the operation of ?/= is correct
  • AI Peter: Mark Bugzilla close. Add proposal closure.
• Done Jim: 282 - Inconsistent case sensitivity of packages
• Done - previously Jim: 281 - Discrepancies between float_generic_pkg.vhdl and float_generic_pkg-body.vhdl (unresolved_unsigned vs unsigned)

Review Bugzilla Issues

• AI Jim: 278 / 280 - Clarify precedence of logic reduction operators
  • miscellaneous_operator ::= ** | abs | not | unary _logical_operator
  • Delete Note 2 on top of 118
• 277: Read of bit_vector and std_ulogic_vector differ slightly. AI Jim

Review and Approve Meeting Minutes:

• Motion: Cliff 2nd: Peter

Next Meeting: Thursday December 5, 2013, 8 am Pacific

Previous Meeting: Thursday November 7, 2013