Known Problems

EPICS Base R3.14.8.x - All releases

libCom/macLib

macLib failes to suppress all warnings when its FLAG_SUPPRESS_WARNINGS flag is set. Ben Franksen posted a patch for this problem.

Architecture Issues

These problems are known to exist in all R3.14.8.x releases:

• The new architectures linux-x86_64 and solaris-sparc64 are known to not work yet; do not attempt do use them, although if you need either one an offer to help find the problems would be welcomed.
• It is not possible to build a statically linked version of base on HP-UX. If you need this and manage to work out how, please tell us!
• We have had problems with the linux-x86 target running on the Linux 2.6.10 kernel, but these disappeared with later kernel versions.

EPICS Base R3.14.8.2

These problems are known about in the R3.14.8.2 release:

EPICS_SITE_VERSION setting

Sites that want to make use of the EPICS_SITE_VERSION setting in CONFIG_SITE will have to apply this patch in the configure directory to get their site version information to appear in the epicsVersion.h generated file.

calcoutRecord susceptible to infinite loops

Since the calcoutRecord had asynchronous device support written for it in Base R3.14.5, it has been susceptible to infinite FLNK loops that will crash the IOC if they occur. The fix is simple.

Install binaries rule breaks build on non-cygwin WIN32

The fix for this problem has been committed and will be in the next base release. A workaround for all non Visual C++ 2005 builds on WIN32 is to edit "$<*" to "$<" in configure/RULES_BUILD. Workarounds for Visual C++ 2005 builds are to use a cygwin version of GNU make, or copy the files configure/RULES_BUILD, configure/os/CONFIG.win32-x86.win32-x86, and configure/tools/useManifestTool.pl from the latest nightly R3.14.x CVS snapshot file.

epicsTime nanosecond overflow issues

Reported problems with the epicsTime implementation (See Mantis #245 for details) can be fixed by applying this patch to the file src/libCom/osi/epicsTime.cpp.

SIMM Alarms

The input record types ai, bi, mbbi and mbbiDirect that support SIMM=RAW are subject to a bug which causes these records to go into INVALID alarm whenever SIMM is true, ignoring the severity set in the SIMS field. This can be fixed by applying this patch inside base/src/rec.

EPICS Base R3.14.8.1

This problem was fixed in the R3.14.8.2 patch release:

strtod/epicsStrtod

Architectures based on Posix may have problems with a recursive definition for epicsStrtod which was introduced during the Win32 cleanup process. This patch should be applied in the src/libCom/misc directory to resolve the problem. We may generate a new patch release containing this fix in a few days, although the final resolution may be slightly different to this patch.

This problem exists in R3.14.8.1 only, and has been seen on Linux and MacOS/Darwin; Solaris may be affected as well.

EPICS Base R3.14.8

These problems were fixed in the R3.14.8.1 patch release:

CA Connection Problem

There is a scheduling vulnerability in the CA client code which can cause delays in recognizing IOC disconnections and possibly slow connection times for some kinds of CA client applications. This patch file contains a fix for this problem, which is filed in the Mantis bug tracker as Issue #232. Apply the patch in the src/ca directory.

Win32 Missing Symbols

A number of IOC symbols do not contain the correct epicsShare... magic keywords needed to use them on an MS Win32 system. These corrections are being made in CVS as they are found.

vxDevWriteProbe() does read instead of write

The fix for this is to replace the VX_READ in the vxDevWriteProbe() routine (which is in base/src/libCom/osi/os/vxWorks/devLibOSD.c) with VX_WRITE.