Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:57:47 -0000

Comment from Tim Mooney:

I can't tell from context exactly what problem is being discussed, but
it seems like you could take an exploratory stab, at some of what you'd
like to do, using info nodes.

I'm imagining you would modify a record's init_record() routine to parse
the record's info node(s), looking for a specially named or defined node
to indicate a field that needs a lazy load, and the data that should be
loaded. This would allow you to make at least some progress without
waiting for any (other) changes in base.

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initialize VAL of an mbbi/o record with a string
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541396
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Status in EPICS Base: Triaged

Bug description:
With the following record in a db file

record(mbbo,"TEST:mbbo") {
	field(VAL,"Zero")
	field(ZRST,"Zero")
	field(ONST,"One")
}

I get

dbLoadRecords("test.db", "")
Error   Last token ")"
input line:     field(VAL,"Zero")
   in: path "."  file test.db line 2

I think it would be nice to be able to initialize an mbbo or mbbi record with one of the configured string values.

Original Mantis Bug: mantis-373
    http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/mantis/view_bug_page.php?f_id=373

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System