From 4443826f9eff5b5315bfc2e420487238a87654e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "R. Timothy Edwards" <tim@opencircuitdesign.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:37:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Corrected a place in netcmp.c where a new instance net
 connection is created without setting the cell name or instance name.  That
 can cause a crash condition when attempting to locate the instance from the
 net record.

---
 VERSION       | 2 +-
 base/netcmp.c | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index d7965c4..07e5b5f 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5.295
+1.5.296
diff --git a/base/netcmp.c b/base/netcmp.c
index c00e634..dfa3359 100644
--- a/base/netcmp.c
+++ b/base/netcmp.c
@@ -7530,6 +7530,12 @@ struct nlist *addproxies(struct hashlist *p, void *clientdata)
 	  else {
 	     lob = ob;
 	     ob->type = i++;
+	     if (ob->model.class == NULL) {
+		ob->model.class = strsave(tc->name);
+	     }
+	     if (ob->instance.name == NULL) {
+		ob->instance.name = strsave(firstpin->instance.name);
+	     }
 	     ob = ob->next;
 	  }
 	  tob = tob->next;