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From: Peter TB Brett <peter AT peter-b DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] gnetlist drc2 seems to be missing some links?
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:40:58 +0100
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Stephen Williams writes:

> What's really bad about this is that I had no indication that
> this name were somehow reserved. All it did was quietly made a
> mess of my netlist. It would be helpful if this magic keyword
> were to somehow call itself out, at least during drc, so that
> a novice like me can become educated in its behavior. I had NO
> clue. A simple warning that a magic refdes were being used would
> have saved me a few days of head-scratching.

Hi Stephen,

I don't have time to look at this at the moment, but could you please
file a bug report so that it doesn't get forgotten about?

Thanks,

                             Peter

> On 09/13/2013 02:38 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>> I was able to reproduce with a fairly recently compiled geda from
>> git- head. The errors seems to be triggered by the "refdes=POWER"
>> attribute of the sub sheet symbol. If I change this to
>> "refdes=POWE", the above errors disappear. "refdes=POWeR" was fine
>> too. Seems like the string "POWER" gets some kind of special
>> treatment.

-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd