Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist segmentation fault

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:31 AM, Patrick Bernaud wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> John Doty writes:
>> [...]
>> This is a coding error somewhere. There should be nothing wrong with an empty string as an attribute: it's a perfectly good string.
> 
> No, actually, an attribute is required to have a value,

There seems to be no good design reason for this restriction: an empty string is still a perfectly good string, just as zero is a perfectly good number.

> see
> documentation

Perhaps it would be better to remove this restriction from both the code and documentation. That would simplify the documentation, and possibly the code, too.

> (and code) for o_attrib_string_get_name_value() in
> libgeda/src/o_attrib.c.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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