Re: CFGs vs. "declare variable before use"

"Swapnajit Mittra" <mittra@juno.com>
8 Jun 2005 15:58:06 -0400

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From: "Swapnajit Mittra" <mittra@juno.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.lang.verilog
Date: 8 Jun 2005 15:58:06 -0400
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Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 08 Jun 2005 15:58:06 EDT

1. A variable in Verilog not declared but used is by default assumed to
be a scalar (i.e. width = 1) of one of the 'net' types (such as, wire,
tri, wor etc.). The actual net type can be modified by the compiler
directive `default_nettype (Section 3.5 and 19 of IEEE Std. 1364-2001).


2. The same LRM says (Section 3.2.2) that '(i)t is illegal to redeclare
a name already declared by a net, parameter or variable declaration.'


Given 1 and 2, it will be illegal to declare a variable after its use.


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