Re: gEDA-bug: gnetlist: unconnected netnames contain a dash

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Werner Hoch wrote:
> Hi Ales and all,
>
> the dependend sources can be placed with unconnected pins. This happens 
> because the netlist backends (spice, spice-sdb?) place dummy current 
> sources into the netlist.
>
> gnetlist does not know about that dummy parts and delivers netnames like 
> "unconnected_pin-1". This is ok too.
>
> Unfortunatly ngspice does not like the dash "-" in netnames.
> It should be replace either by a underline "_" or be removed.

This is an ideal use for the "net-alias" function.  This function was 
specifically designed to address the issue of the allowed name space in 
the output netlist format being more restrictive than the internal 
gnetlist name space.  A couple of the other backends use it already.

-Dan




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