P1076 February 4, 2016 Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• Brent Hayhoe, Jim Lewis, Patrick Lehmann, Kevin Cameron

Agenda:

Meeting Discussion

• Review Interface Proposals
• What's Next - see PrivateDocuments file: _summary_vhdl_requirements_priority.xlsx
  • Resuming at line 15
  • Composites of Protected Types
    • Needed for indexed data structures, like arrays of scoreboards
    • Will need constraint that a composite of a protected type may only include a protected type
  • Report Calling Path of Subprogram
    • Needed for Error reporting
  • Anonymous Types on Subprogram calls
    • ?? Complexity
    • A compromise might be to allow generics to be mapped on a subprogram call
    • Mapping generics on usage is something that is desirable to do for packages and types (assuming that we add generics to types - such as protected types)
  • Protected Types and Aliases
    • Support aliases to methods of protected types.
    • Purpose: Allow protected type method names to be changed (for consistency among utilities), while maintaining backward compatibility.
  • Attributes for Enums
    • 'Length and 'Range seem to be obvious
    • 'Serialize seems to be a conversion on top of 'pos
      • Hard to write a one parameter function to do this. Would need either a generic type or anonymous type and a way to designate that doing 'pos on the type is allowed (ie: the type is a scalar).
      • Easy to do with a two parameter function to do this, however, the call is longer
• Review Integer Proposals

Review and Approve Meeting Minutes:

• NA

Next Meeting: Thursday February 11, 2016 11 am Pacific

Previous Meeting: Thursday January 21, 2016