Re: gEDA: verilog metacomments

[Steve Wilson <stevew@intrinsix.com>]

Stephen Williams wrote:
> I seem to have stirred up some real interest in this subject;-)
> 
> mabaxter@pacbell.net said:
> 
>>I distrust all attributes, because they are invariably tool-specific,
>>which limits code interoperabilty.
> 

Steve, you are sorta avoiding Mike's point here really.  In a way - the 
fact that Icarus might require yet ANOTHER set of pragma's isn't an 
amazing concept when thinking along this line.  Most of the tools have 
their own set (using comments of course.)

It's also probably true that most synth tools ALSO accept synopsys 
directives. They might be considered the lowest common denominator.
I know for a fact that the Magma synthesizer also groks Synopsys 
directives since that is who they compete against.

>>I concur with the observation made earlier that it's interesing that
>>Icarus, being the only Verilog simulator and synthesis tool, should
>>have to ford this particular river.
> 
> 
> I was unaware that I am unique in this regard.
Your just special Steve ;-)  This is just one more time where we are 
beating you over the head dragging you where you don't want to go ;-) 
Hardware guys are like that you know.

Steve