P1076 October 24, 2013 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• JimLewis, PeterFlake, CliffWalinsky, RyanHinton, DanielKho

Agenda:

• Review ISAC issues and Bugzilla
• Check closure on AI from review lists.
• Review items in the collected requirements list

ISAC Action Item Review

• Next Meeting: Cliff: IR 2054 & 2063
• Done: Ryan: Tracking proposal for 2132
• Done: Jim: Tracking proposal for 2130
• Done: Peter: Issue closure and/or Tracking Proposal for 2131
• Action: ?Cliff/Ryan? Proposal for ordered port and parameter lists (like generics).

Ordered Port and Parameter Lists

• Allow for types
• Cliff concerned about using initializers for example:

Port (
  a: std_logic_vector(7 downto 0) := (others => 'Z') ;
  b : a'subtype := a ; 
) ; 

• Any concern about unconstrained ports:

Port (
  a : std_logic_vector ;
  b : a'subtype 
) ; 

Check for New Bugzillas

• 295 - Allow configurations for entities not in the same library - AI Cliff
• 294 - Force of an out port using mode is improperly defined - AI Jim link proposal from ISAC page to collected requirement list
• 293 - Issue with path_name and instance_name wrt VHDL-2008 generate labels - AI Peter
• 291 - Arrays of protected types - AI Jim Already part of ProtectedTypeUpdates separate arrays and records. separate proposal.
• 290 - Allow access type parameters to methods of a protected type. - AI Jim
  • Issue: problematic to allow pointer to internal data structure
  • What about textio read and write
• 289 - Context declaration requirements are not uniform - AI Daniel, Cliff
• 288 - bit string literals not correctly defined - AI Daniel
• 287 - process(all) non-parameter signal read error should be er... - AI Cliff
  • Resolution: leave it as an error vs. change it to erroneous.
  • Would like to understand why the reporter claims difficult to do at elaboration time check
  • If the subprogram body has been compiled, will it be checked?

Review and Approve Meeting Minutes:

• Motion: Ryan 2nd: Peter

Next Meeting Date (proposed):

Thursday November 7, 2013, 8 am Pacific (note US will be off of daylight savings time).

Previous meeting: Oct 10, 2013