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Hi folks,

Is there any options in the vhdl language that lets me declare types
equivalent to the "union" in C. The brute force method that I can think of
is to declare a record with all the possible choices in the original union
as a strictly present field; and have integer tags to access the types: 

	e.g.	-- pseudo vhdl code;

	type union is record
		-- the tag to determine what field to use;
		access_type : integer;
		-- this is where the union starts
		-- list is declared earlier as an access type to a list;
		u1 : real;
		u2 : integer;
		u3 : list
		end record;

Is there any alternative to this lengthy  way of designing a data structure.


thanks for any replies and comments.

ramanand
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