[Open-graphics] Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing

[Benjamin Schroeder]

On Oct 15, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:

> One idea I had was to define stylistic requirements on C functions
> where a function takes a single struct as input and returns a single
> struct as a result.  The structs can contain any primitive data items.
> This would be relatively easy to parse and convert to Verilog, which
> we would synthesize for the FPGA.

By primitive data items, do you mean non-pointers?

Of course, taking a single struct as input is equivalent to taking an  
arbitrary number of structs (because you could just cat them  
together). It's also OK to take a struct like

     struct Foo
     {
         int x;
         struct Bar b;
         int y;
     };

because its memory layout is the same as some longer struct where b  
(however struct Bar is defined) is inlined.

Ben