Tutorial by Topics: comments

Any decent programming language supports comments. In VHDL they are especially important because understanding a VHDL code, even moderately sophisticated, is frequently challenging.

Comments are used to indicate something to the person reading the code. Comments are treated like a blank by the compiler and do not change anything in the code's actual meaning. There are two syntaxes used for comments in C, the original /* */ and the slightly newer //. Some documentation systems ...