Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:02:35 -0500

Peregrine wrote:

> I was just looking at the dfanout record and realized, to my
> disappointment, that it does _not_ implement the SELM, SELN, and SELL
> functionality present in the traditional fanout record.

I would like to point out another problem of the dfanout record.  The Record
Reference Manual says that the VAL field is "double" but in fact it is
"long".  I think the record would be much more useful if the field were in
fact "double".  Would this break anything for anyone?  It seems that a
double can exactly represent a "long" on all supported IOCs?  I have had to
create a "ddfanout" record to have a "dfanout" but with a "double" VAL
field.

Mark Rivers

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System