Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Korhonen Timo <[email protected]> · Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:21:58 +0200 (MEST)

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Marty Kraimer wrote:

> At aps we have not used the aai or aao records. Thus I fear making changes. If
> You and Eric can agree on changes (starting with the 3.13.2 version) I will put
> the new version in the next release.

Eric (Bjorklund), if you see this please comment! 

I could use the waveform record (or genSub record) to achieve what
I need (sending a waveform to an arbitrary waveform generator), but
I took a look at the aao record because a) waveform record is obviously
intended mainly for input and b) the aao record was there.

However, I am willing to implement the changes and test them. It is
not so nice to have things in the distribution which are obviously broken.

> Here is another problem for  aai and aao.
> 
> The init_record looks like
> 
>     if (pass==0){
>         if(paai->nelm<=0) paai->nelm=1;
>         return(0);
>     }
> 
> And then it waits for device support to allocate space for the array during pass
> = 1. This can lead to severe problems since storage MUST be allocated during
> pass 0. If another record has a link to the array and this record gets
> initialized before thye array record bad things will happen. If you and Eric
> decide to fix the problem I have an idea that may work. It dose mean, however,
> that associate device support also needs to be modified.

For me it is easy to modify what I have now, because it is in the
beginnings. Could people who are using aai/aao comment on the implications
of changing the record support code?

Timo

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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