Null or Empty Range

In VHDL, you can use ranges with to and downto. But, if you use the wrong direction, you get an empty range, which is usually not what you want.

signal foo: std_logic_vector(7 downto 0)  -- range of 8;
signal foo: std_logic_vector(7 to 0)      -- null range;

We have a lint check that warns about this, even if you use constants or some simple arithmetic.

Rule configuration

These rules can be disabled for your project, or their severity and parameters can be modified in the project linting settings. Alternatively, they can be manually configured with the following template:

# For ascending ranges
1/severity/${path}={error|warning|info|ignore}
# For descending ranges
26/severity/${path}={error|warning|info|ignore}