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Subject: Re: Problem with epics alarm
From: Steve Lewis <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 10:07:49 -0700 (PDT)
> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 20:49:15 +0200
> From: Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]>

> I never quite understood why so many of the ai and ao record's fields
> are float instead of double. Another example where this leads to wrong
> results are the AOFF and ASLO fields. You cannot represent a 32 bit
> integer (RVAL) with a float without loosing precision.
> 
> I'd propose to make all analog fields doubles.

Without much detailed investigation, I agree on principle.



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