Subject: Re: [sv-cc] meeting minutes 3/4
From: Francoise Martinolle (fm@cadence.com)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 06:11:27 PST
Sorry, It is difficult (at least for me) to take minutes and also
participate in the conference
call.
Thanks Michael for actually reading the minutes.
Francoise
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At 10:11 AM 3/5/2003 +0100, Michael Rohleder wrote:
>Two corrections and a remark.
>
>Francoise Martinolle wrote:
>
> > meeting minutes from last week
> > ? proposed.
>
>Michael
>
> > joao seconded
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Andrzej prefers:
> > import extern
> > export extern.
>
>I like this at least more than the DPI marker.
>
> > ...
> >
> > SV to C call, default context is current instance
> >
> > John: Every call form C to SV would have to be preceded by a set_context.
> > Joao: SV to C call uses the default context, C calls SV. Large use is to
> > not manipulate the context.
> >
> > Michael: I can see the runtime benefit in passing a context pointer.
>
>I can see the runtime benefit in NOT passing a context pointer.
>
>[If the context pointer is set implicitely and needs to be retrieved only
>when it is actually required (which I assume is rather
>seldom), then the work to push this data onto the stack, reserve more
>space for it, and clean it up afterwards will go away
>_for_every_function_call_. When the sv_get_context() function is defined
>as builtin, it could be a rather fast implementation,
>without much overhead. Otherwise a similar function needs to be called
>anyway _before_ calling the function (since the pointer needs
>to be provided ...). And another benefit for the user: it is _visible_ in
>the code whether a context is really used. It is even
>possible to have a check in sv_get_context() that validates the function
>actually is defined as having "context". Otherwise I need
>to do this always when passing the pointer.].
>
>
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