Retrieving a signal parameter's name

[Rob Gaddi]

This should be far easier to figure out than it is. If I've got a
signal as a parameter to a procedure, such as

procedure test_ext_irq(
signal irq_line : out boolean;
irq_mask : in t_wb_data)

Is there any way for me to get the name of the actual signal connected
to irq_line to use it in an assertion? irq_line'simple_name just gives
me irq_line, a thing I find tremendously unhelpful.

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Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology
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[Jonathan Bromley]

On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:04:05 -0700, Rob Gaddi wrote:

This should be far easier to figure out than it is. If I've got a
signal as a parameter to a procedure, such as

procedure test_ext_irq(
signal irq_line : out boolean;
irq_mask : in t_wb_data)

Is there any way for me to get the name of the actual signal connected
to irq_line to use it in an assertion? irq_line'simple_name just gives
me irq_line, a thing I find tremendously unhelpful.

Rob, I don't believe there is any direct way to do this.

You can, of course, provide a string input parameter and feed
it the actual signal's 'SIMPLE_NAME. But that is somewhat
self-defeating.

This is one of those things that would be facilitated
by text-preprocessing macros....

Sorry!
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Jonathan Bromley