racing condition in vhdl

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Below is a piece of VHDL code snippet implementing register file of a single cycle 32 bits mips processor. In this implementation, a combinational process is for data reading and a sequential process is for data writing. My question is that will it cause racing condition if a register is written followed by read it in two consecutive assembly instructions. It looks like both read and write instruction can be executed first. Your comments are highly welcome.

library IEEE; use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.all;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_UNSIGNED.all;
entity regfile is — — three-port register file
port(clk: in STD_LOGIC;
we3: in STD_LOGIC;
ra1, ra2, wa3:in STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(4 downto 0);
wd3: in STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(31 downto 0);
rd1, rd2: out STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(31 downto 0));
end;
architecture behave of regfile is
type ramtype is array (31 downto 0) of STD_LOGIC_VECTOR (31
downto 0);
signal mem: ramtype;
begin
— — three-ported register file
— — read two ports combinationally
— — write third port on rising edge of clock
process(clk) begin
if clk'event and clk  '1' then
if we3  '1' then mem(CONV_INTEGER(wa3))  wd3;
end if;
end if;
end process;
process (ra1, ra2) begin
if (conv_integer (ra1)  0) then rd1  X"00000000";
— — register 0 holds 0
else rd1  mem(CONV_INTEGER (ra1));
end if;
if (conv_integer(ra2)  0) then rd2  X"00000000";
else rd2  mem(CONV_INTEGER(ra2));
end if;
end process;
end;
 

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