ISSUE 315

Number 315
Category errata
Synopsis Re: errata
State closed
Class mistaken
Arrival-DateMar 27 2003
Originator Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com
Release 2001b
Environment
Description
What would be the problem in making that prefix customizable?

In point of fact, -f is today not universally standard.

Shalom



On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Stephen Williams wrote:

> etf@boyd.com said:
> > "the simulator tool may provide a command line option to provide a
> > file containing a set of options. In that case the acc_fetch_argv and
> > vpi_get_vlog_info will provide the option string name followed by a
> > pointer to null terminated array of pointers to characters. This new
> > array shall contain the parsed contents of the file"
>
> Seems to be wrong because it legislates away portability. A programmer
> needs to know, when scanning the arguments, that the argument is a
> pointer to a sub-array instead of a char*. The prefix to this array
> pointer needs to be standardized, or standard argument scanners are
> theoretically impossible.
>

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