SystemVerilog Gotcha: (when copying) a struct is not a class by another name
Sunday, January 20th, 2008 by Jason SprottSystemVerilog has two “similar” data types that allow variables to be grouped together in a handy package: the struct and the class. I’ve heard it often said, when explaining what a class (an object-oriented data type) is, that it is just like a C struct with functions. I used to have no problem with that, until, when reviewing and debugging testbench code, I started seeing some problems related to the way classes have to be treated differently to structs. One of the most common errors I’ve found is when data structures composed of classes are copied.
Consider the following: (more…)
