Re: [vhdl-200x] Image attribute for array types

Hi David,
> And I'll put my opinion out there succinctly.
>
> If you can't have a 'image attribute that won't operate error free for valid VHDL expressions it doesn't belong in the language.  VHDL has no error recovery mechanisms.

Why is generating an error message that says that the bounds are out of range of the base type?
It does not seem much different from the code below.

Cheers,
Jim

library ieee ;
use ieee.std_logic_1164.all ;
use ieee.numeric_std.all ;
use ieee.fixed_pkg.all ;

entity Ufixed2Unsigned is
end Ufixed2Unsigned ;
architecture test of Ufixed2Unsigned is
   signal X: ufixed(4 downto -3) ;
   signal AX : unsigned(7 downto 0) ;
begin
   X <= "00001111" ;
   AX <= unsigned(X) ;
end test ;


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