Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:56:49 -0600

Hi Nick,

Rees, NP (Nick) wrote:

The dbBkpt changes. Modified R3.14.9-pre2 files are attached, and the
diffs are given at the end of this message. The bottom line is that I
created a dbBkptInit routine that needs to be called at initialisation,
and then most problems go away (I think).

Thanks; I used that as the basis for what I've committed, which included

a little cleanup (I renamed lset_stack_not_empty to lset_stack_count and

 maintain its value strictly according to the ellAdd/ellDelete calls.

The only question I had was where/how to call the dbBkptInit. Hence the
changes to dbBkptRegister so I can call it from the iocsh. However, I
really want it to always be called from iocInit, and I don't know the
recommended way to do this. I presume I can call initHookRegister in
dbBkptRegister, but then it probably doesn't happen in the VxWorks
environment. How do I do this in base?

I didn't add dbBkptInit() as a command like you did, but call it from

iocInit() instead.

The result seems to be less fragile than before, as I didn't manage to

cause any crashes in my tests. The output from the breakpoint commands

isn't particularly user-friendly, but this is better than it was.

- Andrew
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