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[Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>]

On 01/06/18 20:23, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> I think maybe we are seeing the severity of these bugs differently. 
> There are three substantial issues addressed by this patch.  While they
> don't affect many users, they do prevent KiCad from being used for
> larger, more complex boards that we nominally support.  This is a also
> regression from v4.

Hi all,

I vote for merging Seth's patch.

For those concerned about its correctness: the connectivity algo is
designed in such way that in case of bugs in collision search (other
than in BOARD_ITEM::HitTest()/POLY_GRID_PARTITION which haven't been
touched for a year), it may find false unconnected items, but not false
connected ones. In the worst case, we'll have false 'unconnected items'
warnings in the DRC, but I doubt there will be any. The patch is simple
and elegant.

Tom