hex rep. in VHDL

Mark McDougall wrote:
> Mike Treseler wrote:
> 
>> I can tolerate
>>  foo(4 downto 0) <= "11111";    -- or
>>  foo(4 downto 0) <= "1" & x"F";
>> to get compile time width checking
>> on all vectors.
> 
> Warning #1034: X"1F" width 8 truncated to width 5 in assignment.

Yes.
Your example has a width mismatch.
Those above do not.
Try it and see.

         -- Mike Treseler

Mike Treseler wrote:

> Yes. Your example has a width mismatch. Those above do not. Try it
> and see.

Not quite sure what point you're making here Mike?!?

Anyway, to kill the thread, let's agree to disagree. I come from a 
software background, which might explain why I'm lazy and spoilt with 
feature-rich languages and powerful pre-processors. ;)

Regards,
Mark