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Subject:	how to determine record type given pointer to a record
From:	John Dobbins <[email protected]>
To:	EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:32:09 -0500

Dear All,

I'm writing a bit of code that has to deal with multiple record types but is only passed a pointer to the record. What is the easiest way to determine the record type (or even just dset type)?

e.g. since I don't the record type I'm being passed I first cast the pointer as (dbCommon *), then precord->rdes->name will give me the record type name as a string which I can compare to say "ai"

but is there a simpler way?

Thanks to all of you,

John Dobbins
Cornell University
Lab of Elementary Particle Physics

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