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Emmanuel,

You can't.  If a link's initial value is not entirely numeric,
EPICS will treat it as a PV name, rather than as a constant value
with which to initialize the value field associated with the link.
"Entirely numeric" means "completely eaten by strtol() or epicsStrtod()",
according to dbStaticLib.c's dbPutString().

--
Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.

Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:

Hello,

I would like to pass a CONSTANT char to gensub as an input parameter

(INPA).

record (genSub, "myGS") {
  ...
  field(INPA, "A")
  ...
}

How can I make gensub recognize A as a CONSTANT (and not as a PV
(CA_LINK))?

--
Emmanuel

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