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"Brian McAllister" <[email protected]> · Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:07:39 -0400

>>> On 8/15/2001 at 8:49:13 CDT, Marty Kraimer wrote:

  > I am not aware of any plans to change the current mappings which are:

  > epicsShareDef unsigned short dbDBRnewToDBRold[newDBR_ENUM+1] = {
  > 	  0, /*DBR_STRING to DBR_STRING*/
  > 	  4, /*DBR_CHAR to DBR_CHAR*/
  > 	  4, /*DBR_UCHAR to DBR_CHAR*/
  > 	  1, /*DBR_SHORT to DBR_SHORT*/
  > 	  5, /*DBR_USHORT to DBR_LONG*/
  > 	  5, /*DBR_LONG to DBR_LONG*/
  > 	  6, /*DBR_ULONG to DBR_DOUBLE*/
  > 	  2, /*DBR_FLOAT to DBR_FLOAT*/
  > 	  6, /*DBR_DOUBLE to DBR_DOUBLE*/
  > 	  3, /*DBR_ENUM to DBR_ENUM*/
  > };

Why is USHORT promoted to LONG, but UCHAR mapped to CHAR (rather than
SHORT) ?

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Brian McAllister                    Controls Programmer/Beam Physicist
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