The router began as a port of FreeRouting and has grown its own engine
(negotiated congestion, tree nets, exact checks, axis escapes), and
'freeroute' was one letter from the project it no longer follows. The
package, module and command are now rpmroute; the freeroute command stays
as an alias, and the RPMROUTE / RPMROUTE_ORACLE_JAVA variables fall back
to the old FREEROUTE names. Version 2026.10.07. Routing is unchanged: a
PCBench board routes to a byte-identical session either way.
Add true_density.dsn: NET_C is a full-height wall on the sole signal layer,
so plain room routing drops a net under every net ordering (an order-independent
obstruction, verified over all permutations), unlike rooms_shove_channel whose
plain drop fits under a reorder.
Test that shove recovers nothing on this board (shoves == 0, same routed set as
plain) while staying DRC-clean, and that the only difference from the recoverable
shove_channel is the wall's span. shove relocates a blocker into existing free
space; where the wall leaves no headroom there is nowhere to relocate to, so it
cannot manufacture density. The recover/fail boundary is the free-space boundary.
_shove_recover_room clobbered a net's _Accepted with a fresh one whose
wire_owners held only the just-recovered wire, while its wires list (the
shared result.wires[net_no]) already held earlier committed connections.
That left wire_owners shorter than the parallel wires list, so a later
net's shove either removed the wrong wire's copper from the search tree
(a silent different-net short: copper stayed in the emitted SES but
vanished from the tree, and has_violation falsely certified it clean) or
raised IndexError and aborted the whole route.
Reuse the net's existing _Accepted on recovery so wire_owners stays
parallel to wires. Fixes both the silent DRC violation and the crash
sibling without touching the DRC-clean or determinism invariants.
Also correct the overstated "density win" framing of the shove_channel
fixture: its plain-routing net drop is an artifact of greedy net order,
not a density limit (the same board routes both nets with zero shoves
under a reorder or with the cosmetic seals removed). Reframed the test
and docstring; the genuine sub-cell win remains the wide_door occupancy
packing (shoves == 0).
Regression tests assert the invariant against the emitted output
directly (reconstructed copper tiles), not just the tree that the bug
fooled, plus determinism, no-crash, and the ordering-artifact bound.
rooms_shove_channel is the headline density win: a sealed NET_A wall
leaves no top<->bottom door, so plain room routing drops NET_C; with
shove=True NET_A is nudged aside and both nets route, DRC-clean and
deterministic. rooms_wide_door seats two nets through one wide gap at
distinct projected gate points with no shove.
Cover the occupancy-aware projection math directly, assert the four
foundation fixtures stay byte-identical under shove=True (shoves==0), and
extend the room DRC-clean parametrize with both new fixtures.
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