Minutes of BTF meeting on May 17, 2004, 11:05 AM PDT.

From: Dave Rich (David.Rich@synopsys.com)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 15:13:33 PDT

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    Minutes of BTF meeting on May 17, 2004, 11:05 AM PDT.
    >
    > In attendance:
    > Kurt Baty
    > Stefen Boyd
    > Dennis Brophy
    > Cliff Cummings
    > Steven Dovich
    > Tom Fitzpatrick
    > Ronald Goodstein
    > Francoise Martinolle
    > Kathryn McKinley
    > Michael McNamara
    > Karen Pieper
    > Brad Pierce
    > Dave Rich
    > Steven Sharp
    > Alec Stanculescu
    > Stu Sutherland
    >
    > Due to Memorial Day, we will not have a meeting in 2 weeks. The next
    > meeting will be in 4 weeks, on June 14.

    Approval of minutes - correction: Add Michael McNamara's name as in
    attendance
    Kurt moves as corrected, cliff abstains, passes

    Steve reiterated the patent policy and asked if it needs to be read in
    full. All attendees have reviewed

    data types want BTF to consider 287 as a high priority for discussion.
    http://www.boyd.com/1364_btf/report/full_pr/287.html

    Kurt moves, Stu seconds
    Discussion :
    Steve: compiler directives make the parsing context sensitive, which
    goes against IEEE.
    Dennis: May not be possible under current IEEE rules because new LRM
    replaces old LRM, which may not be available
    ALL: acknowledge the problem that needs to be solved. 287 only proposes
    a straw man solution.
    Object: Dennis, Brad Steven Dovish, Abstain Tom, Karen(no response from
    Mac or Françoise), passes

    55, 61, 62, 357, 384, 385, 391

    data types subgroup wants to handle 55,61, 62, 357 , 384, 385, 391
    http://wa.boyd.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?Number=%5E%2855%7C61%7C62%7C357%7C384%7C385%7C391%29%24;cmd=submit%20query
    Kathy moves, Kurt seconds. No discussion. passes

    data types subgroup issue with bit and logic keywords
    Discussion:
    Unanimous agreement form sub group
    Need to assure the user that adding keywords will not cause existing
    design to fail
    Steve comments that 'bit' is used in 29% of designs he has access to.
    'bool' in none
    Kurt moves to adopt logic and bit as reserved words for data types cliff
    apposes, Alex abstains (no response from Mac or Françoise), passes.

    Steve Dovich reports on the IP Encryption subgroup
    continuing on with action items

    Kathy reports from the Data types subgroup
    Focusing on C types first and primitive types.

    Alec reports from the prioritization subgroup.
    Had a couple of meetings. A few issues have been logged in data base.
    Shalom will issue a report based on the feedback of the group. Alec will
    issue report on issues presented.

    Agenda for next meeting.
    Take up issue 287
    Opposers to 287 should submit their issues to the reflector before the
    next meeting

    The next meeting will be in 4 weeks, on June 14.

    Dave 

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