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Subject: Bug in initDatabase()
From: Patavalis Nikos <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:46:09 +0300 (EET DST)
Greg Greence wrote:

> The problem is in initDatabase() which is called by iocInit()...
> The problem is in the first call to ellFirst().  If there are no
> records defined for a specific type, then the field precLoc->preclist
> is null.  However, the call to ellFirst() does not check for this...

I'm using a rather old EPICS release (R3.12.0Beta1) and the problem
you are reporting has been corrected!

Just after entering the loop that goes for every record type,
and almost before doing anything else (certainly before calling
ellFirst()) there is a check:

                       .
                       .
                       .
    /* For every record type ... */
    for(i=0; i< (precHeader->number); i++) {
       /* Get pointer to location structure for instances of
          record type 'i' */
        if (!(precLoc = precHeader->papRecLoc[i]))continue;

        if (!precLoc->preclist) continue;
                       .
                       .
                       .

I think this solves the problem...
What release are you using?

Nick Patavalis.
([email protected])
University of Athens.
Athens, Jul 12, 1995.


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