It looks like the spice language plugin section of the development version's manual is yet to be written. Is there any place I can go for more info on that?
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM, al davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 September 2009, [email protected] wrote: >> Here's a thread that started out on gnucap-help: >> >> What is the inline comment delimiter in gnucap, > > It depends on the language plugin, but mostly it doesn't work. > Let's fix it now. > > Gnucap accepts several different simulation languages. What is > the comment delimiter should depend on what language you are > using. > >> and what >> should it be? > > With the language plugins, it is possible to have exact > compatibility with most other simulators, even the different > incompatible versions of Spice. > > As it stands, compatibility isn't perfect, but Hspice and Eldo > have been treated as the "spice" versions for which the highest > compatibility is desired. > >> According to the manual for V0.35, the delimiter is quote. >> It doesn't say whether that is single quote or double quote. > > That's unclear. .. The manual is being rewritten completely. > The new version is on the wiki at: > http://gnucap.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=gnucap:manual > >> From experiment, it seems that ' starts a comment on my >> lines, but " starts a comment on a .SUBCKT line. > > Several characters are accepted to start whole-line comments, > going back a long time when different versions of spice used > different characters. Since there was no standard, accept all > of them. > > I think it has converged to "*". Correct me if I am wrong. > > It is easy to change it to just about anything. So, since the > example is Spice format .. What do the different versions of > Spice do? > > (Hspice, Pspice, NGspice, LTspice, Eldo, Multi-sim, Smart-spice, > .....) > > There is another issue now ... You can have parameter > expressions. It looks like Hspice and Eldo want them in single > quotes. Pspice appears to want curly braces. What else is > there? > > Another comment issue is how comments mix with extension lines. > It seems to be different in different simulators. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnucap-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucap-devel > _______________________________________________ Gnucap-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucap-devel
