Re: [sv-bc] potential command line option

From: Gordon Vreugdenhil (gordonv@model.com)
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 08:57:26 PDT

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    I don't have a problem with either of the proposed switches
    being suggested.

    I do not like the idea of removing Verilog configs from source files.
    There will already be a backwards compatibility issue since there
    are customers currently relying on such functionality. I would be
    opposed to removing the keywords from the keywords list even though
    I acknowledge the issues with Verilog-1995 designs.

    Making this change will introduce a double incompatibility issue for
    vendors that did provide support for 1364-2001 configurations in
    Verilog source in that such vendors will end up supporting both
    1364-2001 with the keyword restrictions and 1364-2005 without. Between
    this and the customer design changes necessary for such a change,
    we do not believe that removing source support is a good solution.
    Gord.

    Steven Sharp wrote:

    > As part of my proposal for 1364 erratum 350, I was asked to put in an
    > informative note that suggests a command line option for tools to use
    > to specify that an input is a config file. The goal is to encourage
    > tools to use the same option. To help with this, I need to pick an
    > option that is not already used by many tools for something else. I was
    > asked to query the members of these lists to find out if anyone was
    > aware of tools using these options.
    >
    > The options that have been proposed are "-cfg" and "-config". Is anyone
    > aware of tools using either of these?
    >
    > Steven Sharp
    > sharp@cadence.com
    > 

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