Re: [f-cpu] Re: genereic_adder patch

[Michael Riepe <michael@stud.uni-hannover.de>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:06:02AM +0200, Yann Guidon wrote:
[...]
> > > i'm waiting for your updated "MR official" version :-)
> > That will take a while.  I'm quite busy at the moment (next month's iX
> > issue has to be finished), and I wanted to do a little more than just
> > change one line before I make a new release.
> 
> so i assume that my patched version will hold until you release another.
> by the way, wouldn't it be great if you separated the testbench
> from the ciadd package ? So if you can't compile the testbench
> at least you could compile the package...

Umh... file-o-mania ;(

That reminds me that I also need to bring my local CVS repository in
sync with your snapshots (I use a different directory structure here).

[...]
> > And what is it supposed to do?
> Since at that point the compiler knows the new name and type,
>    Signal s : std_ulogic_vector(N downto M) := random(s);
> means that you send a std_ulogic_vector(N downto M) to random().
> So you don't have to repeat the declarations.
> Unfortunately there is no way that i know for a function
> to read the type and range of the final recipient.

AFAIK that's only possible with `out' or `inout' parameters.

-- 
 Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
 "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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