> Why does gattrib show some components with a dot ( period ) appended to > their refdes?
IIRC, Gattrib appends a dot to the refdes if the "numslots" attribute is set. Then, assuming you have a slotted part (i.e. numslots > 0), each slot of the part is listed on a separate line. For example: refdes attr1 attr2 U1.1 foo bar U1.2 baz U2 U3. foo1 etc. In the above example, U1 is a slotted part with numslots=2. Each slot of U1 is listed on a separate line. U2 has no "numslots" attribute at all, and U3 has numslots=0. In an effort to clean up our parts libararies, our diligent developers have been adding the "numslots" attribute to all components, including things like single caps & resistors. In the case of single parts, numslots=0, which turns off slotting. However, since gattrib is triggered off the presence of the "numslots", and not its value, it appends the ".". All this happens in gattrib/src/s_attrib.c at the bottom of the file. As for why it works this way? I belive gattrib was segfaulting on slotted parts before this features was implemented. Either that, or it was badly munging parts. In any event, it needed a way to handle parts with multiple slots, and the above way was the easiest to create. > I could find anything in the manual about what the '.' symbolizes. Gattrib has a manual??? Stuart
