Hello all,
A bug has been discovered in EPICS 3.12.2.
Conditions (all of the following are true):
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o client side program is running on a little endian machine
with IEEE (not VAX) floating point
=> PC
=> dec alpha (running UNIX)
=> others?
o double precision floating point data has been fetched
by a CA get call back operation or a CA monitor
operation
Symptoms:
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Least significant part of the double precision operand
is not byte swapped resulting in an incorrect value for
the portion of the data after the 8th digit or so (and
also, under rare circumstances, a floating point
exception).
This problem does not occur in recent versions of EPICS
3.13 beta.
A patch has been applied to EPICS 3.12.2.
Thanks to Mark Rivers for discovering the problem and
also to Kay-Uwe Kasemir for fixing it.
Jeff
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