P1076 February 12, 2015 Meeting Minutes

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FileIO - FILE_COPY_HANDLE - implies doing an assignment to the file identifier. Currently there is no such thing.
- How to do this in a file declaration to attach an identifier to std.textio.OUTPUT
BigNum
- Done with a package would be have to be a protected type to allow dynamic sizing.
- This makes doing operators challenging
Is Fixed Point Algorithmic package needed by 1076.1?
- Should it be part of the standard or should it be released as open source?
- With open source, it could be updated frequently without having to put it through the standards process.
Implicitly defined to_string for composites
- language defined attribute for separator, prefix, postfix that applies to either a type or an object (signal, varaible, constant)
- all parties agreed that it is more important to provide a base implementation than what the exact format is.
For conditional compilation all parties at the meeting agreed that a simple implementation that used pre-defined names would be sufficient.

Topic revision: r6 - 2020-02-17 - 15:36:15 - JimLewis