From 2bd3d9ed5d23c52f911411794b02ffa538423788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:56:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Allow strings to be constructed formats in $display et al.

---
 vpi/sys_display.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vpi/sys_display.c b/vpi/sys_display.c
index 1dfe1b19e..6d92268f3 100644
--- a/vpi/sys_display.c
+++ b/vpi/sys_display.c
@@ -969,9 +969,11 @@ static char *get_display(unsigned int *rtnsz, const struct strobe_cb_info *info)
       case vpiStringVar:
 	value.format = vpiStringVal;
 	vpi_get_value(item, &value);
-	width = strlen(value.value.str);
+	fmt = strdup(value.value.str);
+	width = get_format(&result, fmt, info, &idx);
+	free(fmt);
         rtn = realloc(rtn, (size+width)*sizeof(char));
-        memcpy(rtn+size-1, value.value.str, width);
+        memcpy(rtn+size-1, result, width);
 	break;
 
       case vpiSysFuncCall: