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I have a custom type that's defined as follows:
Code: 
type unconstrained_array is array ( natural range <> ) of unsigned ;

signal x is declared as follows:
signal x : unconstrained_array ;

I want to write a loop that assignes to x an array of incrementing unsigned numbers as follows:

"0000"
"0001"
"0010"
.
.
.
"1111"

However, becuse x is an unconstrained array, I want the code to be generic and except any width and depth of x.
This is what I wrote so far:

Code: 
for index in x ' range 
loop
x ( index ) <= to_unsigned ( index , ( x ' length ) ) ;
end loop ;

What do you think? Anything I should fix?
 

First of all, x cannot be declared like this:
signal x : unconstrained_array ;

It needs to have it's two dimensions defined at declaration:
something like this:

signal x : unconstrained_array(7 downto 0)(7 downto 0);

When you have got over this hurdle, the for loop you have should work this this minor modification:

x ( index ) <= to_unsigned ( index , ( x(index)'length ) ) ;
 
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This is what I wrote:

Code: 
running_address : process ( all ) is 
begin
  for index in x ' range
  [COLOR="#FF0000"]loop[/COLOR] 
    x ( index ) <= to_unsigned ( index , ( x ( index ) ' length ) ) ; 
  end loop ;	
end process running_address ;

However, this code causes modelsim to freeze.
Pressing the break key releases the freeze after a long delay with a note that points to the line marked in red)
Rewriting the code in a non generic way, doesn't cause a problem.

Any ideas?
 

because you put process(all) this process will be re-run when ANY signal changes. This will probably slow modelsim to a crawl.

This isnt really a process - you dont have anything that would cause a change in X. Everything is constant, so why is it in a process?
 
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so why is it in a process?
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I used a process because of the "for" loop.

What alternative do you suggest?
 

a constant set via a function perhaps?
 

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