errata/549: Re: errata/549: Re: errata/549: 17.1.1.7 leading zeros in string format

From: Bruce LaVigne (bruce@hp.com)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 08:10:00 PST

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    The following reply was made to PR errata/549; it has been noted by GNATS.

    From: Bruce LaVigne <bruce@hp.com>
    To: Shalom Bresticker <Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com>
    Cc: etf-bugs@boyd.com
    Subject: Re: errata/549: Re: errata/549: 17.1.1.7 leading zeros in string
     format
    Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:17:18 -0800

     This possibility sounds valuable from a user perspective, but only if I could count
     on it working in all the tools (which it sounds like it doesn't).
     
     -bruce
     
     Shalom Bresticker wrote:
    > The following reply was made to PR errata/549; it has been noted by GNATS.
    >
    > From: Shalom Bresticker <Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com>
    > To: etf-bugs@boyd.com
    > Cc:
    > Subject: Re: errata/549: 17.1.1.7 leading zeros in string format
    > Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:12:40 +0200
    >
    > I also thought that another reasonable way would say that "" is essentially
    > non-existent.
    > So, for example, {"H", ""} could be considered one 8-bit character long.
    > But at least in this particular case, none of the implementations I tested
    > actually did it that way.
    > There might be a good reason for that.
    >
    > Shalom
    >
    >
    > > The suggestion you have made would say that "" is equivalent to a single
    > > NUL character, or 8'b0.
    > >
    > > The other results you mention seeing appear to be a single space character,
    > > or 4 NUL characters (which makes very little sense, and was probably
    > > unintentional in the tool in question).
    > >
    > > Of these, I have to agree that the single NUL character makes most sense.
    >
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