[sv-cc] RE: Suggestion for proposal for #121

Jim,

Thanks very much for the grooming you are giving our proposals.
I made all your suggested changes to #201 and uploaded the
modified HTML proposal.

Best regards,
Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Vellenga [mailto:vellenga@cadence.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 1:59 PM
> To: Warmke, Doug
> Cc: sv-cc@eda.org
> Subject: Suggestion for proposal for #121
>
> Doug,
>
> For your proposal for #121, I would like to suggest some
> changes to the
> "modal auxiliaries" -- words like "should", "may", and "must" -- in
> order to reduce ambiguity.
>
> Under imported:
>
> First bullet: "that the user should not attempt to free" ->
> "that the
> user must not free"
>
> Second bullet: "SystemVerilog will not free" -> "SystemVerilog shall
> not free" (indicates a requirement rather than a description)
>
> Third bullet: "The user may not free" -> "The user must not free".
> "SystemVerilog will not attempt to free" -> "SystemVerilog shall not
> free".
>
> Under exported:
>
> First bullet: "It does not modify the characters" -> "It shall not
> modify the characters"
>
> Second bullet: "SystemVerilog will write" -> "SystemVerilog shall
> write".
> "nor should the string memory be freed by C code" -> "and the
> C code must not free the string memory".
>
> Third bullet: "and it will not attempt to modify nor free this
> storage" -> "and it shall not modify or free this storage".
> "nor should the string memory be freed by C code" -> "and the
> C code must not free the string memory".
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Strictly speaking, IEEE style guidelines (as of 1994) also deprecate
> the use of "must" in favor of "shall", so one could be even
> more formal
> and replace every occurrence of "must" in this write-up by "shall".
>
> Regards,
> Jim V.
>
>
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>
>
> ] -----Original Message-----
> ] From: owner-sv-cc@eda.org [mailto:owner-sv-cc@eda.org] On
> ] Behalf Of Warmke, Doug
> ] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 1:54 AM
> ] To: sv-cc@eda.org
> ] Subject: [sv-cc] SV-CC proposals updated
> ]
> ] Team,
> ]
> ] As per my action item of last meeting, I've updated my proposals
> ] to include surrounding LRM context. They are ready for review.
> ]
> ] http://www.eda.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000050
> ] http://www.eda.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000156
> ] http://www.eda.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000198
> ] http://www.eda.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000199
> ] http://www.eda.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000200
> ] http://www.eda.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000201
> ] http://www.eda.org/svdb/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000274
> ]
> ] Regards,
> ] Doug
> ]
> ]
> ]
> ]
>
Received on Tue Nov 2 17:02:03 2004