Re: [sv-ec] ERR-4

From: Shalom Bresticker (Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com)
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 00:06:36 PDT

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    Arturo,

    I believe this is contrary to IEEE 1364-2001.

    The automatic variable j belongs to the automatic task loop_fork.

    There is only one copy of it, referenced by the forked processes.

    The 1364 ETF discussed this in issue #281.

    Shalom

    Arturo Salz wrote:

    > Lifetime of automatic variables in fork/join_none I propose that the following
    > be added to Section 9.6
    > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    > Automatic variables in the scope enclosing a fork-join_none or fork-join_any
    > shall be copied on fork of each process that references those variables. Only
    > the variables actually used by a sub-process need to be copied, not all
    > automatic variables. For example:
    >
    > task automatic loop_fork();
    > for( int j = 1; j <= 3; ++j )
    > fork
    > $display( "%0d", j );
    > join_none
    > endtask
    >
    > The example above displays 123 (not 333).
    > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    > Arturo 

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