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Subject: Re: [geda-user] The nature of gEDA layers (Atomic id)
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:09 AM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:
> On 01/28/2016 09:52 AM, Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>>
>>> One thing needed in core data structures is room for and a mechanism for
>>> a unique ID for each atomic board element such as
>>> >trace, pad, polygon, text...
>>
>> Can you explain why?
>
>
> If you had that you could build up physical connectivity DRC check results
> that are accurate is the main reason.
> Then it can be part of attributes used in extracted netlists to compare with
> schematic netlist for simulations.
> It could be used by routers - define a list of elements that act as a
> boundary for this and that.

I believe this already exists, its the ID field of ANYOBJECTFIELDS
defined in global.h.  Each object gets an ID at creation in create.c.
They aren't serialized however, so you presumably get a different ID
each time.  I've never had the urge to use it for anything but it does
get used:

$ cd ../src && grep -e '(->|\.)ID' * | grep -v create.c | grep -v
cscope.out | wc -l
71