My name is Bill Stewart. I am working at the NASA Langley Research
Center with EPICS. I was interested in using the dynamic assignment
and dynamic monitoring capabilities of SNL and have run into a few
problems. Basically, what I attempted to do was to implement code
similar to the example on page 22 of the "State Notation Language
and Seq. Users Guide" with an array of floats. It turns out that
this example will not compile with my version of snc. It fails on the
following assignment:
long setpoint[5];
assign setpoint to { };
I was able to get it to compile by changing the curly brackets to " "
as in the following example:
char str[30];
float pos_actual[42];
assign pos_actual to " ";
Then, I perform the following to do the dynamic assignment
and monitoring.
/* do dynamic assignments on the array type parameters */
for (i=0; i<42;i++){
/* Actual jack positions from LVDT's */
sprintf(str,"flexcs:pos:j_pos_%d\n",i);
pvAssign(pos_actual[i],str);
pvMonitor(pos_actual[i]);
.
.
.
}
When this segment gets loaded and run, I get an error. Oddly enough,
it never completes the loop. It dies on the 25th iteration. What I get
in debug mode is as follows:
CA.Client.Diagnostic..............................................
Message: "The array or data structure specified will not fit in CA message buffer"
Severity: "Error" Context: "ca_add_array_event"
Source File: ../seq_if.c Line Number: 279
task: 0X373aa4 taskwd
task 1b2d18 fcs suspended
Also, since the documentation states that the functions pvAssign and
pvMonitor are defined to return an integer, what are the expected return
values for successful and unsuccesful completions? The documentation that
I have does not state what the return values are supposed to be. What gets
returned (with a few mods. to the above code) is a value of "1" from
both calls prior to the bus error. I don't believe I have a memory problem. The version of
EPICS is R3.12 and the version of snc is 1.9.0 for 3.12.1. Any takers?
Thanks for your help....
William L. Stewart
[email protected]
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