Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Jeff Hill <[email protected]> · Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:39:29 -0700

> I added the CONVERSION_REQUIRED define (along with MULTINET and
> "caNetAddrSock") to my cxx command and the example server now works 
> great and data looks good.  And of course, /float=d_float just like
> for the client.  This solution can be made permanent as far as I'm 
> concerned.  Thanks,

Yes, sorry I had a temporary bit of amnesia, and you are correct. In fact gdd 
does not currently handle floating point conversion, but the CA server does  if
CONVERSION_REQUIRED is defined because it will then use the host format
to network format conversion code that is built into the CA client library. This
change was added when we were porting to the PC environment to solve
endian problems, and so I didn't immediately leap to the conclusion that the VMS 
floating point conversion problems had been solved.

Jeff

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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