Subject: RE: DirectC C-Layer: open arrays and abstract access
From: Joao Geada (Joao.Geada@synopsys.com)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 11:53:35 PST
Kevin said:
> That's what's in my proposal. My working assumption is that access to new
data types has to be available
> through VPI (and/or PLI) anyway, so you might as well use the same
mechanism for argument access from
> called from SV - it makes your code more reusable and avoids having to
spec two interfaces.
But this is an assumption and I do not believe this assumption holds for SV
3.1
Please note that there were no volunteers to the task of defining the new
VPI model to encompass all
the new stuff in SystemVerilog *and* no donation to the committee providing
the ground work for this.
We have to go with what we have, and in what we have VPI has no means of
access to:
- complex types (structs, unions)
- all the primitive C types added to SV (char, byte, int, short, ...)
- classes
- any dynamic variable
- etc
Joao
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