gEDA-dev: reproducible crash in gschem

[Kai-Martin Knaak]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:13:47 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:

> An obvious workaround is to have a 2-pin SMC symbol, and name all the
> grounds the same in the PCB footprint. Matt, I'm not going to "impose"
> that on you if you prefer the "5"-pin variant, we still need to fix the
> underlying bug.

Hmm. The other day, I drew symbols for the SO8 version of 78L05, 79L05. I 
put the four GND pins on top of each other so the resulting symbol looks 
like the tree terminal regulator it really is. gsymcheck issued big fat 
errors due to "connection inside a symbol". This is odd, because 
connections inside a component is exactly what I wanted to reflect.

So, the correct way to deal with this would be a three pin symbol and a 
dedicated SO8 footprint in which four pads bear the same name? 

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