add byte_vector_* as an alias of string_*

vunit/vhdl/data_types/src/byte_vector_ptr_pkg.vhd

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+-- This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+-- License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file,
+-- You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+--
+-- Copyright (c) 2014-2019, Lars Asplund [email protected]
+--
+-- The purpose of this package is to provide a byte vector access type (pointer)
+-- that can itself be used in arrays and returned from functions unlike a
+-- real access type. This is achieved by letting the actual value be a handle
+-- into a singleton datastructure of string access types.
+--
+
+use work.byte_vector_pkg.all;
+use work.string_ptr_pkg.all;
+
+package byte_vector_ptr_pkg is
+
+  alias byte_vector_ptr_t is string_ptr_t;
+  alias null_byte_vector_ptr is null_string_ptr;
+
+  alias new_byte_vector_ptr is new_string_ptr[natural, integer, val_t return ptr_t];
+  alias new_byte_vector_ptr is new_string_ptr[natural, integer, natural return ptr_t];
+  alias new_byte_vector_ptr is new_string_ptr[string, integer return ptr_t];
+
+  alias is_external is is_external[ptr_t return boolean];
+  alias deallocate is deallocate[ptr_t];
+  alias length is length[ptr_t return integer];
+  alias set is set[ptr_t, natural, natural];
+  alias get is get[ptr_t, natural return natural];
+  alias reallocate is reallocate[ptr_t, natural, natural];
+  alias resize is resize[ptr_t, natural, natural, natural];
+
+--  alias write_byte is write_char;
+--  alias read_byte is read_char;
+--  alias byte_vector_access_t is string_access_t;
+
+end package;

vunit/vhdl/data_types/src/data_types_context.vhd

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 context data_types_context is
   library vunit_lib;
+  use vunit_lib.byte_vector_pkg.all;
+  use vunit_lib.byte_vector_ptr_pkg.all;
   use vunit_lib.integer_vector_ptr_pkg.all;
   use vunit_lib.integer_vector_ptr_pool_pkg.all;
   use vunit_lib.integer_array_pkg.all;

vunit/vhdl/data_types/src/types/byte_vector_pkg.vhd

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+-- This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+-- License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file,
+-- You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+--
+-- Copyright (c) 2014-2019, Lars Asplund [email protected]
+
+use work.string_pkg.all;
+
+package byte_vector_pkg is
+  alias byte_vector_access_t is string_access_t;
+  alias byte_vector_access_vector_t is string_access_vector_t;
+  alias byte_vector_access_vector_access_t is string_access_vector_access_t;
+
+  alias extbytevec_access_t is extstring_access_t;
+  alias extbytevec_access_vector_t is extstring_access_vector_t;
+  alias extbytevec_access_vector_access_t is extstring_access_vector_access_t;
+end package;