On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 20:42 +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote: > I have just finished to implement package interface. > Well, at least enough to support all the ieee 2008 packages. > > I think this is a milestone, although vhdl 2008 is still far > from being fully supported. > > I'd like to make the release 0.32: I will run tests, fix > possible bugs, test with gcc 4.9.2 (or 4.9.1) and then > create the branch.
Excellent news! I've been meaning to ask... I also think it's a good time to stabilise 0.32. Despite a slowdown in downloads over the Summer, it looks like October might be the best month for downloads so far, and ghdl's on track for well over 5000 downloads in a year. I apologise I've not done any technical work since my wife's death but I am slowly beginning to think about it again. I want to build with 4.9 (stock Debian this time) and then maybe 4.10 (now called 5.0) and see if I can stay ahead of the game. So ... 0.32 has a good subset of VHDL-2008 support. I know you tried OSVVM 2014.1, and though 2014.02 was talked about, I believe 2014.1 is still current. That should please Jim Lewis! 1) Does it support Daniel Kho's VHDL-2008 feature requests (on gna.org)? 2) What is the intended status of the backends? (subject to testing in this phase... a) gcc of course b) mcode (for x86-32) presumably c) is the LLVM backend still experimental? Should we announce it and start to get feedback from early adopters, with a view to making it part of 0.33? d) You have added a "simulator" mode ... what is its status? > Volunteers are welcome for testing or creating releases. Time I got busy then! I've been reading your commits ... basically just watching in awe! > For 0.33, I'd like to concentrate on usuability: add > a vzt dumper, improve speed. Adding new vhdl 2008 won't > be the priority for 0.33 OK. Is it possible to look at an efficient "packed array of boolean" implementation of bit_vector? It might please YG, and set the cat among the pigeons in the current integer/logical/shift/modular debate if ghdl was the industry leader in speed there! - Brian _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
