Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andy Foster <[email protected]> · Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:23:41 +0100 (BST)

Hi Pedro,

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Pedro Gigoux wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm porting a record support routine from EPICS 3.12.3 to 3.13.4 and
> found calls to the following routines that are no longer supported:
>
> 	status = recGblPutFastLink (&(pmr->dstl), (void *) pmr,
> 			&(pmr->dsta));

  status = dbPutLink( &(pmr->dbgl), DBR_xxx, &(pmr->dsta), 1);

DBR_xxx is the type of the field to which the link refers.

>
> 	status = recGblInitFastInLink (&(pmr->dbgl),(void *) pmr,
> 			DBR_ENUM, "DBUG")
>
> 	status = recGblInitFastOutLink (&(pmr->dstl),(void *) pmr,
> 			DBR_LONG, "DSTA");

These two calls are no longer required.

To initialise a CONSTANT link, use:

recGblInitConstantLink( &pai->siml, DBF_USHORT, &pai->simm );
(for example)

>
> DSTL and DBGL are an output link and input link respectively. Can
> someone give me a hint on what are the routines I'm supposed to use now
> and how the calling sequence should look like?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Pedro Gigoux
> Gemini Observatory
>
>

Cheers,

Andy

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