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["Sergey A. Borshch" <sb-sf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05.06.2018 16:54, Jon Evans wrote:
> it seems a bit like there ought to be a better way to 
> support those needs
Indeed.

> but I understand and will maintain that behavior.
Can you also try to fix bug 1704083 caused by assigning different net names to 
unconnected instances of shared pins in every gate (unit).

> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:50 AM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Le 05/06/2018 à 04:38, Jon Evans a écrit :
>      > Hi all,
>      >
>      > In the current netlisting algorithm, pins with no-connects sometimes
>     appear in the netlist, with
>      > auto-generated names like Net-(U1-Pad1).
>      >
>      > This seems to not always happen, but I haven't investigated why yet,
>     since I'm approaching
>      > netlisting from a different direction with my new connectivity
>     algorithm.  In my algorithm, a pin
>      > with a no-connect attached will never generate an entry in the netlist.
>      >
>      > Is there some reason we should be including these pins on the netlist? 
>     It seems like if they are
>      > marked as no-connects and don't actually connect to anything, we
>     shouldn't be forwarding them to the
>      > layout.
>      >
>      > -Jon
>      >
>
>     We *should* forward them to the layout.
>     This is the best way to detect if the footprint has missing pads (incorrect
>     footprint choice)
>
>     -- 
>     Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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  Sergey A. Borshch            mailto: sb-sf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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