From: Paul Graham (pgraham@cadence.com)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 13:24:22 PDT
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> One advantage to the (* synthesis, ... *) style of attributes was that
> tools could do a better job of recognizing directive syntax errors. By
> requiring that "synthesis" be the first attribute, tools could keep a
This can be done without the synthesis prefix. A tool can (perhaps with a
special flag) issue a warning for all unrecognized attributes. Unrecognized
is not the same as unsupported, of course. A simulator may not "support"
any synthesis attributes, but may still recognize them.
Paul
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