Quoting Thomas Sailer <[email protected]>:

> A relatively longstanding issue is that some of the math_real functions
> provided by ghdl use a nonstandard function name. I got annoyed by
> having to maintain two different versions of my testbenches for ghdl and
> another simulator, so I wrote a two patches to make math_real more
> standards compliant.

Thank you for working on this issue.

> ieee-mathreal-nocompat.patch just renames the functions. It will break
> code that relies on the ghdl function names.
>
> ieee-mathreal.patch also contains backward compatible functions that
> warn once that they will disappear in the future. However, to implement
> the warn once feature, these functions had to be marked impure, which
> breaks existing code that relies on these functions being pure.
>
> Comments?
>
> I'd really like to see ghdl moving towards standards compliant function
> names...

I will have a look on these patches.  The current situation is:
* official math vhdl sources cannot be distributed freely (but you can get it
 from the web)
* an early draft is available (the one provided with ghdl) but the final draft
 is somewhat different.

> And now for something different:
>
> $ ghdl -a t.vhd
> t.vhd:13:14:warning: universal integer bound must be numeric literal or
> attribute
>
> This warning seems totally bogus, the bounds _are_ numeric literals.
> What's wrong here?

Well -10 is not a numeric literal.  The warning is correct but the vhdl standard
is crazy on this point!

> Also, to compile ghdl on ppc64, I had to use the hack in
> ghdl-ppc64abort.patch. Is there a better solution?

Looks not bad.

Tristan.

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