P1076 November 7, 2013 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• DavidKoontz * CliffordWalinsky * JimLewis * PeterFlake * DanielKho

Agenda:

Action Item Review

• Done: Cliff: ISAC IR 2054 & 2063
• ?Cliff/Ryan? Proposal for ordered port and parameter lists (like generics).
  • Reported: Using values from previous values is bad. Driving values go up and effective values go down.
  • Using types derived from previous names ok. Cliff concerned about subprogram lists.
• Done: Cliff Bugzilla 295 - Allow configurations for entities not in the same library
• Done: Jim: Bugzilla 294 - Added ISAC table to collected requirements list.
• Peter: Bugzilla 293 - Issue with path_name and instance_name wrt VHDL-2008 generate labels
  • Peter wants to say that these are optional and not necessary.
  • Cliff thinks John Ries agrees.
• Done: Jim: Bugzilla 291 - Arrays of protected types.
  • Separated Composites of Protected Types from Protected Type Update and added details.
• Done: Jim: 290 - Allow method parameters to be an access type. Initial proposal at Allow Method Parameters that are Access Types
• Cliff & Daniel: 289 - Context declaration requirements are not uniform
• Daniel: 288 - bit string literals not correctly defined
  • Current write-up in email. Need put it into proposal form.
• Cliff: 287 - process(all) non-parameter signal read error should be er...
  • Issues related with reading a global signal
  • Could be done via static analysis - but trade off of compile time.
  • Could be done at run time - but trade off run time

Review Bugzilla Issues

• 286 - incrmental binding example is illegal - AI Daniel
• 285 - textio write[line,boolean...] is not backward compatible across language versions - AI Jim to do initial
  • Older implementation produces TRUE. Newer implementation produces true.
  • What happens with vendor consistency.
  • Could make it uppercase?
  • Could make it match the case of the declaration.
  • What is the path to consistency across tools?
• 284 - Sizing rules for fixed point reciprocal are wrong - Need proposal from David Bishop
• 283 - ?/= function in float_generic_pkg can give wrong answer - AI Peter
  • Should ?/= return an 'X' if there is an 'X' or 'U' in one of the arguments.
• 282 - Inconsistent case sensitivity of packages - AI Jim
  • Language beutification
• 281 - Discrepancies between float_generic_pkg.vhdl and float_generic_pkg-body.vhdl - AI Jim
  • Resolve per bugzilla

Review and Approve Meeting Minutes:

• Motion: Peter 2nd:Cliff

Next Meeting: Thursday November 14, 2013, 8 am Pacific

Previous Meeting: Oct 24, 2013