Re: [vhdl-200x] Proposal for improved physical types

> Yes, that's the reason Jan and other proponents have proposed that
> integer types be constrained, but only at elaboration time, or as I
> put it, at a higher-level hierarchy of the design. Think of it
> similar to deferring the constraints to a later (or higher) phase of
> the design. At the block level, integer types can be unconstrained,
> but will be constrained later at the system level. So there is no
> concern of infinite precision arithmetic. At elaboration time,
> precision will still be constrained and finite.

Hard to achieve that for subprograms, which are dynamically elaborated.

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