Writing Testbench Output Results

[Analog Guy]

I am a bit confused about how to write testbench results to both the
ModelSim screen as well as to an output file??? I was under the
assumption that a WRITELINE destroys the LINE variable, hence I tried
the following:

PROCEDURE print_main_header (text_in : IN STRING) IS
VARIABLE L : LINE;
VARIABLE F : LINE;
BEGIN
WRITE(L, MAJOR_DIVIDER);
F := L;
WRITELINE(OUTPUT, L); -- write to ModelSim window
WRITELINE(output_file, F); -- write to file


But received the following ModelSim failure:

** Failure: (vsim-5) ****** Memory failure. *****
# Bad pointer/access type passed to memory subsystem.
# Pointer may have been previously deallocated.

Any explanation of the problem would be appreciated.

 

[Jim Lewis]

In the next revision of VHDL, we are adding a function
like the following to std.textio:

procedure tee (file F : TEXT; variable L : in LINE) is
variable CopiedBuf : LINE;
begin
CopiedBuf := new STRING'(L.all);
writeline(F, CopiedBuf);
deallocate (CopiedBuf);
writeline(OUTPUT, L) ;
end procedure tee;

If you do this alot and decide to put it in a package,
do not name it tee as when the next revision of the language
is released, you will have a name conflict.

Cheers,
Jim

I am a bit confused about how to write testbench results to both the
ModelSim screen as well as to an output file??? I was under the
assumption that a WRITELINE destroys the LINE variable, hence I tried
the following:

PROCEDURE print_main_header (text_in : IN STRING) IS
VARIABLE L : LINE;
VARIABLE F : LINE;
BEGIN
WRITE(L, MAJOR_DIVIDER);
F := L;
WRITELINE(OUTPUT, L); -- write to ModelSim window
WRITELINE(output_file, F); -- write to file


But received the following ModelSim failure:

** Failure: (vsim-5) ****** Memory failure. *****
# Bad pointer/access type passed to memory subsystem.
# Pointer may have been previously deallocated.

Any explanation of the problem would be appreciated.

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