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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting, when I added this feature a couple years ago I explicitly
made it display the ends in this case to indicate an "error". I had no
idea it was intended that bus entries be used in this way.

I wish we could come up with a redesign of the bus entries that isn't
visually ambiguous with wires drawn in the exact same shape, since they
don't form connections the same way.

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 06:15:11PM +0000, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> The attached patch adjusts how dangling ends are shown for wire-bus entries
> to correct the behavior Nick reported.
> 
> Previously, wire-bus entries were shown as dangling if there was a wire or
> a bus at both ends.  This broke in the case of the Coldfire demo where a
> bus was drawn over a wire and there was also an entry point (see attached
> image coldfire-broken.png).
> 
> The patch implements the logic that if there is _at least_ a wire and a bus
> at each end, that the entry is considered not dangling. (see attached image
> coldfire-fixed.png)
> 
> -Seth