VASG Issue Number:      0195
Comment Author:         Clive Charlwood for Sivaram Nayudu
Comment Number:         01
Comment Date:           1991/03/23

LRM section 6.3, paragraph 8 specifies that:
    An  expanded  name  denotes  an  entity declared immediately within a
    named construct if the prefix denotes  a  construct that  is  an  entity,
    an architecture, a subprogram, a block statement, a process statement, or
    a loop statement, and the suffix is the simple name, character  literal,
    or  operator symbol  of  an  entity  whose declaration occurs immediately
    within that construct.  This form of expanded name  is  only allowed
    within the construct itself.

Also, LRM section 10.1 specifies that:
    A single declarative region is formed by the text of an entity declaration,
    together with a corresponding body.

Interpreting the above test case in the context of the above two paragraphs,
the prefix denotes an architecture and the suffix(es) is a simple name whose
declaration is immediately within this construct.

Conclusion:
    LRM is clear on the interpretation of these expanded names.