Interpretation -- external names of directly nested generate constructs

From: Gordon Vreugdenhil (gvreugde@comcast.net)
Date: Thu May 06 2004 - 22:01:48 PDT

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    Section 12.4.2 says:
        The generate blocks of the directly nested construct are
        treated as if they belong to the outer construct, and
        therefore can have the same name as the generate blocks
        of the outer construct.

    Given that, do all the alternatives in the following
    have the same implicit external name?

        module top;
          parameter p = 7;

          if (p == 1) // genblk1
             reg a;
          else if (p == 2) // genblk1 or genblk2 ???
             wire a;
          else // same name as the "p == 2" scope
             integer a;

        endmodule

    I think that it makes sense to say that all parts of a
    directly nested conditional construct are treated as a
    single generate construct for the purposes of assigning
    genblk numbers. It might be worthwhile to add an explicit
    statement like this to the LRM.

    Gord.

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