define and strings

Arpad -
Do you mean "string parameters" or string arguments?

I think you mean arguments to the macro that are strings.

`define PRT(x) $strobe(x);

`PRT("this is fine")


-Geoffrey


"Muranyi, Arpad" wrote:
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> 3)  `define with string parameters.  Since the macro text which
> is defined is not surrounded by the double quote signs, it is
> technically not a string type.  It is "just text".  What happens
> if I pass in a string as an argument to be part of this text?
> Is it going to get flattened out as "just text", or is it going
> to remain a string type?  Since this is a compiler directive, I
> would expect that the compiler would take the content of the string
> argument, turn it into "just text" and pass it on to the simulator
> as such.  However, a tool vendor's opinion is different, they
> say that at compile time the string parameters are not evaluated
> yet, so the macro expansion is not aware of what the contents
> of the string parameters are, therefore it can't be expanded
> yet as "just text".  I don't see anything on this in the LRM
> v2.2 either.
> 
> Please let me know if I missed something, or if these are real
> problems, please put these on the agenda for further discussion.
>