P1076 October 30, 2014 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

* Meeting date changed and this one was deleted

Agenda:

Action Item Review

Topics for Discussion

• Jim: Package based implementation of mod using record and discriminants. Added to ModularTypes
• Martin: Arbitrary Length Integers - BigNum
• Martin: IntegerOperators - Integers and Logic Operators - in progress
• 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.
• Ryan - Slicing Multidimensional Arrays (FT15) maybe related to above 2012_MeetingMay24
  • work in progress
• 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: 2nd:

Next Meeting: Thursday November 13, 2014 8 am Pacific

Previous Meeting: Thursday October 16, 2014