Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Jeff Hill" <[email protected]> · Thu, 12 May 2005 08:28:44 -0600

Jun-ichi Odagiri san wrote:

> errlogPrintf itself. So, a trivial bug in the library 
> under construction caused a loop of recursive call like:
> 
> epicsSignal ->
> errlogPrintf ->
> epicsSignal ->
> errlogPrintf ->
> ......

I assigned Mantis entry 200.

Thanks for your bug report.

PS: I hope that you have found a suitable C++ compiler for EPICS
and the ITRON architecture?

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jun-ichi Odagiri [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 7:14 PM
> To: 'EPICS Tech-Talk'
> Subject: errlogPrintf in OSD implementation
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We are implementing OSD-library of ITRON referring to the
> existing ones,
> such as RTEMS, VxWorks and so forth.
> In those libraries, errlogPrintf is used to print out error
> messages from
> epicsThread, epicsEvent and epicsSignal.
> On the other hand, APIs in those facilities are used to
> implement
> errlogPrintf itself.
> So, a trivial bug in the library under construction caused a
> loop of
> recursive call like:
> 
> epicsSignal ->
> errlogPrintf ->
> epicsSignal ->
> errlogPrintf ->
> ......
> 
> Though it might not happen once the OSD-library will have been
> well-debugged, I guess it would be better not to use
> errlogPrintf in the
> OSDs which are used to implement errlogPrintf itself.
> Could anyone have advice or comments on this?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> J. Odagiri
> 
> High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK),
> Oho 1-1, Tsukuba, Japan

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System