Minutes of ISAC meeting held via telecom on 11 January 2007 Present: Peter Ashenden, Larry Soule, Chuck Swart, Ajay Verikat Absent: Jim Lewis, Lance Thompson Next Meeting: Thursday, February 01, 2007, 6 pm Pacific Time (Friday, February 02, 2007, 2 am GMT ) TOPIC: Bugzilla Chuck researched Bugzilla capabilities. You cannot edit text once it is entered. However, you can create and delete attachments. This provides a mechanism to allow updates of complicated analyzes. No one has yet commented on Peter's suggestion for changing the current Bugzilla organization on the VHDL website https://bugzilla.mentor.com. We plan on using bugzilla once the Accellera standard is IEEE approved. ACTION: Chuck to contact Lance about pushing Accellera LRM activities, including reviewing Bugzilla proposal. TOPIC: IR 2106 Desire preprocessor (macro/ifdef) support in VHDL The submitter sent an email to Chuck describing the problem in more detail. ACTION: Chuck will incorporate this email and forward the IR to the enhancements committee. TOPIC: IR 2107 Editorial process dropped a \ from extended identifier example The submitter identified a typo in the LRM. This IR is ISAC-approved ACTION: Chuck to forward for VASG ballot. TOPIC: IR 2108 Behavior of "wait" when condition is already true The submitter points out that if a process wants to take some action when a condition is true or else WAIT until that condition is true, then the condition must be indicated twice such as: if(not condition) then WAIT on condition; This is difficult if condition is a complicated expression. One way to address this problem is through macros. It was pointed out the Verilog semantics for WAIT work in the way the submitter wants, so translating between Verilog and VHDL could be awkward. In any event, this is clearly an enhancement. ACTION: Chuck to forward the IR to the enhancements committee. TOPIC: IR 2099 Alias declarations introduce homographs This has had insufficient review to progress. ACTION: All to review, Chuck to reminds people to review. We hope to finish this issue, or at least make substantial progress, at the next ISAC meeting. TOPIC: IR 2105 Can't declare an alias of a character literal without using expanded name The restriction was an oversight. The submitter's proposed solution is accepted.This IR is ISAC approved. ACTION: Chuck to forward for VASG vote; TOPIC: Review of IRs incorporated into D3.0 2048 Ajay OK 2049 Ajay OK 2050 Chuck OK 2051 Chuck OK 2052 Chuck OK 2056 Lance OK 2057 Lance OK ACTION: IRs to be examined for next meeting: 2043 2006-015 Larry 2053 2006-023 Larry 2055 2006-025 Larry 2058 2006-028 Ajay 2059 2006-029 Ajay 2061 2006-039 Lance 2062 2006-031 Lance 2071 (FT25)2006-109 Chuck 2073 2006-032 Chuck TOPIC: Review of Pre-2002 IRs 1016 Larry Open Issues 1022 Ajay Resolved (Several minor wording changes not incorporated.) 1025 Ajay Open Issues 1026 Larry Resolved 1027 Larry Resolved 1030 Chuck Open Issues 1031 Chuck Open Issues 1032 Lance Open Issues 1033 Lance Resolved ACTION: Pre-2002 IRs to be examined for next meeting 1035 Larry 1036 Larry 1040 Ajay 1041 Ajay 1042 Chuck 1043 Chuck 1045 Lance 1046 Lance