[sv-ac] meeting minutes 2007-01-09

From: John Havlicek <john.havlicek_at_.....>
Date: Tue Jan 09 2007 - 10:44:44 PST
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Meeting minutes are attached.  Please notify me if
corrections are needed.

J.H.

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Minutes of IEEE P1800 SV-AC meeting #2007-01: 2007-01-09
Written by: John Havlicek

Date:  2007-01-09
Time:  17:00 UTC (11:00 CST) 

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Attendance Record:
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	Legend:
		x = attended
		- = missed
		r = represented
		. = not yet a member
		v = valid voter (2 out of last 3)
		n = not a valid voter
                t = chair eligible to vote only to make or break a tie

New PAR, attendance re-initialized on 2006-08-22:

nn[------xxx------] Shalom Bresticker (Intel)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxxx-xx] Doron Bustan (Freescale)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxxxx-x] Eduard Cerny (Synopsys)	
nn[--x-x-xxx-x---x] Surrendra Dudani (Synopsys)
vv[-xxx-xxx-------] Yaniv Fais (Freescale)
nn[--x------x-----] Faisal Haque (Cisco)
tt[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] John Havlicek (Freescale - provisional Chair)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxx-xxx] Dmitry Korchemny (Intel - provisional Co-Chair)
nn[--------xx-xxxx] Manisha Kulshrestha (Mentor Graphics)
nn[x-------x-xx-x-] Jiang Long (Mentor Graphics)
nv[--xx-xxxxxxx-x-] Hillel Miller (Freescale)
nn[----xx-xxx-----] Don Mills (Microchip)
vv[xxxxx-xxxxxxxxx] Lisa Piper (Cadence)
vv[xx-xx----------] Tej Singh (Mentor Graphics)
nn[-----xx-x------] Stu Sutherland (Sutherland HDL)
vv[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Bassam Tabbara (Synopsys)
   |-------------- attendance on 2007-01-09
 |---------------- voting eligibility on 2007-01-09
|----------------- new voting eligibility


Agenda:
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- Review IEEE working group rules
- Review action items
- Brief discussion of process for enhancements to be addressed by SV-BC (Dmitry)
- 1550:  $sampled definition and sampled-value functions
- 1601:  implicit type
- 1549:  Missing formal types
- 1668:  Local var initializers
- 1641:  Severity specification for error msgs (should be discussed together with SV-BC)
- 1667:  Local variable args for seq and prop
- 1591:  $past syntax not precise


Minutes:
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- Review IEEE working group rules
- Review action items
  . AI:  Push back on "implicit" is underway.  Bassam has suggested
    "context".  Bassam to send some description of why context makes
    sense to the reflector.
  . AI:  Feedback for DK on 1591 -- everyone expressing opinion prefers 
    the second alternative.
  . AI:  Feedback for TS.  Tej says he has received enough feedback.    

- Brief discussion of process for enhancements to be addressed by SV-BC (Dmitry)
  . Dmitry will submit list of enhancements that need to be addressed 
    by SV-BC for e-mail discussion.  Others can add items to the list.
    After completing discussion, we will vote and, if approved, send the
    list to SV-BC.

- 1550:  $sampled definition and sampled-value functions
  . Ed split 1550 into two.  1550 is now just $sampled.  New item
    is 1698 to deal with sampled value functions.  Ed will put a bugnote 
    on 1698 to record the current thinking on this item.
  . Leave 1 week for email discussion and then call for email vote.

- 1601:  implicit type
  . Bassam to send email on "context".
  . Email discussion of "context" for 1 week.  If "context" is acceptable,
    then we will call for a vote.  If not then we will resume the message
    to SV-BC (EC?) requesting "implicit".

- 1549:  Missing formal types
  . DK:  This item needs to include information about type casting and 
    assignment compatibility.
  . This item will be discussed in the sub-committee and updates will
    be given in the regular meetings.  First sub-committee meeting will 
    be this Thursday.
  . DK:  Two new types, "property" and "sequence".  Do they introduce 
    syntactic ambiguity?
    - AI: JH will try to extract the relevant syntax productions to make 
      a judgment.
  . DK:  Also, we may eventually want to have nested property declarations.
    The syntax should allow for this.
      
- 1668:  Local var initializers
  . JH:  Why do we need "var_data_type"?
  . EC:  var type(expression) can be used.  Look at p. 79.  "var" is required
    when using "type(expression)" in a variable declaration.
  . JH:  The technical problem with this proposal is the way attaching
    (1, v=e) to define the semantics of an initializer can affect the matching 
    of the following sequence expression or the strength of the following 
    property expression.
  . EC:  Consider restricting to constant initialization.
  . JH:  This could help, but it may be too restrictive.

- 1641:  Severity specification for error msgs (should be discussed together with SV-BC)
  . To be reassigned from Manisha to Tej.

- 1667:  Local variable args for sequences and properties.
  . JH:  No progress on this.

- 1591:  $past syntax not precise
  . Everyone expressing opinion prefers the second alternative.  Dmitry to 
    prepare the specific proposal for review and discussion.

- EC:  Some items with proposals can be looked at and, hopefully, resolved quickly.  
  Ed to send his suggestions for items to be put on the agenda.
- JH:  We will also review the prioritized list from the poll as space on the 
  agenda becomes available.
- DK:  Others who think that proposals are ready to be considered can suggest them
  as well.
- LP:  1704 subroutine execution on empty match could be quickly resolved.  Lisa to
  prepare a proposal.


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