P1076 Minutes from January 28, 2021

Attendees

• Patrick Lehmann, Peter Flake, Unai Martinez-Corral, Jim Lewis

Meeting Discussion

• Discussion and clarifications about Peter's updated DpiProposal
  • 'wait' statements are not supported in Part 1, for now.
  • Expected usage of anonymous accesses vs the proposed chandle type.
  • Allow implementation dependent C headers for lower level usage of fat pointers, together with a generic macro/function based header.
  • Clarify/think about how to handle exporting subprograms from generic packages (instances of generic packages).
  • Requirement to define the VHDL body of foreign functions and/or to provide the foreign body of functions declared as such.
  • Discussion about the motivation for using an attribute, instead of a keyword before 'function'.

Next Meeting

• February 4 at 11 am