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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Simon,

I don't use this very often but occasionally it's useful to be able to
dump the object state for debugging purposes.  It's similar to the
bounding box drawing code.  I don't want to get rid of it because you
never know when you're going to need it.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 3/17/2017 3:39 PM, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've looked at where EDA_ITEM::Show() is actually used:
> 
>  - NETLIST_OBJECT::Show() uses it from DumpNetList(), which is called if
> DEBUG_NETLIST is defined in addition to DEBUG, probably to debug the
> sorting during netlist generation.
> 
>  - PCB_BASE_FRAME and PCB_EDIT_FRAME also have references inside an "#if
> 0" block
> 
> That's it.
> 
> Would it make sense to just remove that code? I believe no one has used
> it in ages.
> 
>    Simon
> 
> 
> 
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