nested for loops running forever

ads-ee said:

using the following to "test" your code in Modelsim 10.1b. It ran fine for the 256 clock cycles.

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module test2;
 
reg [3:0] in [0:2][0:2];
reg [3:0] n;
 
reg [7:0] hist [0:15];
 
reg [7:0] count = 8'b0;
 
reg clk;
 
integer i,j;
 
initial begin
  clk = 1'b0;
  hist[ 0] = 8'b0;
  hist[ 1] = 8'b0;
  hist[ 2] = 8'b0;
  hist[ 3] = 8'b0;
  hist[ 4] = 8'b0;
  hist[ 5] = 8'b0;
  hist[ 6] = 8'b0;
  hist[ 7] = 8'b0;
  hist[ 8] = 8'b0;
  hist[ 9] = 8'b0;
  hist[10] = 8'b0;
  hist[11] = 8'b0;
  hist[12] = 8'b0;
  hist[13] = 8'b0;
  hist[14] = 8'b0;
  hist[15] = 8'b0;
 
  forever begin
    clk = 1'b0;
    #5;
    clk = 1'b1;
    #5;
  end
end
 
// generate test data
always @ (posedge clk) begin
  in[0][0] <= $random;
  in[0][1] <= $random;
  in[0][2] <= $random;
  in[1][0] <= $random;
  in[1][1] <= $random;
  in[1][2] <= $random;
  in[2][0] <= $random;
  in[2][1] <= $random;
  in[2][2] <= $random;
  count <= count + 8'b1;
 
  if ( &count ) $stop;
end
 
 
always @(posedge clk) begin
  for (i=0;i<=2;i=i+1) begin
    for (j=0;j<=2;j=j+1) begin
      n <= in[i][j];
      hist[n] <= hist[n]+1'b1;
    end
  end
end
 
endmodule

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I'm assuming this is non-synthesizable testbench code, because there are blocking statements in the always block. I attempted to synthesize the code to see what those blocking statements would generate but the results didn't make much sense. I used ISE 13.3, probably should have used Quartus II 12 as I've had issues with ISE RTL schematic generation.

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