P1076 October 16, 2014 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

* JimLewis * CliffWalinsky * MartinThompson * RyanHinton

Agenda:

Action Item Review

Discussion

• Martin: Arbitrary Length Integers - BigNum
• Martin: IntegerOperators - Integers and Logic Operators - in progress
• Jim: Flag metavalues detected by ?? - Add warning to ?? on meta value
• Martin: Trace back information from warning in package (such as numeric_std) to line number in entity that caused it.
  • VHPI has this information.
  • 'instance_name does not work since it goes through the library rather than the call stack
  • Define stack trace to be a string produced by VHPI full name
  • Could be a standard DPI library to call VHPI applications.
  • Need an attribute for some applications in addition to any report statement modifications.
• Jim: Package based implementation of mod (record with modulus and integer value) - in progress
  • Add both record based methodology and a discriminant based methodology
• Jim: Implicit Numeric Converisions
  • Add concerns about "??" [A : unsigned return unsigned]
• Ryan - Slicing Multidimensional Arrays (FT15) maybe related to above 2012_MeetingMay24
  • work in progress

Topics for Discussion

• Jim: Prepare ranking sheet
• Jim - Mark bugzillas for which we have a proposal with that status
• Jim - Table driven modeling via protected types 2012_MeetingMay10
• Steven: P1735 submitted to RevCom. VHDL work ready to start

Ranking Criteria

• Rank based on need
  • Item needs to be fixed
  • Useful for an application
• Rank based on complexity
  • How hard to implement
• Noted several items in Collected Requirements as Must Do
• AI: Jim: Create ranking sheet.

Review and Approve Meeting Minutes:

• Motion: Martin 2nd:Cliff

Next Meeting: Thursday November 13, 2014 8 am Pacific

Previous Meeting: Thursday October 2, 2014