gEDA-user: Problems with subnets containing short-circuits

[Arvid Rosén]

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, why would you want to have two nets which
> connect to nothing other than each other?
>
> Before we label it a bug, what is the goal of this construct?  
>
> Stuart
>   
Hi Stuart!
That's a good question. The construct itself is quite pointless. 
However, I was working on a quite complex design with two 
filter-subcircuits. I wanted to test some aspects of my circuit, so I 
shorted the first filter just to bypass it, which resulted in an open 
circuit instead of a bypass! That is quite annoying, don't you think?
The possibility to bypassing stuff is always important when debugging.

Cheers
Arvid
>
>   
>> John Luciani wrote:
>>     
>>> On 7/20/06, Arvid Ros=E9n <arvid at softube.se> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> However, I also tried to make a 2-pin subnet containing only a
>>>> short-circuit. This connection was completely ignored by gnetlist!!
>>>>
>>>> Could someone confirm this?
>>>>         
>>> You are correct. If you have two nets that only connect to each other
>>> the connection does not show up in the netlist.
>>>
>>> I get around this by connecting one of the nets to a component.
>>>
>>> (* jcl *)
>>>
>>>       
>> Ok, thanks!
>> Shouldn't that be considered as a pretty severe bug? I am new here,=20
>> maybe it's already reported.
>>
>> /Arvid
>>
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>> Arvid Ros=E9n
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Arvid Rosén
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