Printing failure message in a try else block

Question

I have a code block like this.

try {
   gen <object> keeping { <constraints>};
} else {
   error(Failed to generate){
      out(<additional debug information>);
   };
};

I would like to have Specman print out the regular debug message from a gen failure along with my additional debug information. Any way to do this?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '15 at 11:43

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If by "regular debug message" you mean the message generated by Specman when encountering a generation failure, then no, you can't print this message and your own custom message. This is the whole point of a try block, to eat up any errors and to replace them with a custom response.

answered Sep 28 '15 at 11:43

Tudor Timi

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That's too bad. I figured this might be the case. – qzcx Sep 28 '15 at 15:28

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 29 '15 at 07:56

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If you need to know more about this, you might want to check out the reflection classes rf_constraint and rf_constraint_layer. You can use them to see whether a constraint is satisfied before you actually do generation (and possibly get an error).

answered Sep 29 '15 at 07:56

Thorsten

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Interesting, but I don't think it solves my problem. Looking into this, it seems that reflection will only tell me if a particular constraint to satisfied on an already generated struct (and then modified I assume). Doesn't seem like it matches what I need – qzcx Sep 29 '15 at 16:16

Printing failure message in a try else block

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