Using macros with restart and checkpoint/restore

The restart command resets and restarts the simulation kernel, and zeros out any user-defined commands, but it does not touch the state of the macro interpreter. This lets you do restart commands within macros.

The pause mode indicates that a macro has been interrupted. That condition will not be affected by a restart, and if the restart is done with an interrupted macro, the macro will still be interrupted after the restart.

The situation is similar for using checkpoint/restore without quitting ModelSim, that is, doing a checkpoint and later in the same session doing a restore of the earlier checkpoint. The restore does not touch the state of the macro interpreter so you may also do checkpoint and restore commands within macros.

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