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Subject: misleading error message from dbLoadRecords in Epics 3.14.8.2
From: Goetz Pfeiffer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:28:19 +0200
Hello,

I recently ported my Epics application from version 3.13.8 to
3.14.8.2. So I forgot to call

<appname>_registerRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase)

in the startup script. This caused a strange and to my opinion
misleading error message from dbLoadRecords:
-------------------------
dbLoadRecords("../../db/idcp99.db","user=pfeiffer")
Error Last token ")"
input line: record(longin, "U1IV:BaseCmdHmLock") {
in: file ../../db/idcp99.db line 1

Error "syntax error" Last token "?X??longin, "U1IV:BaseCmdHmLock") {
"
input line: record(longin, "U1IV:BaseCmdHmLock") {
in: file ../../db/idcp99.db line 1

db_parse returned -1
value = -1 = 0xffffffff = ipAddrToAsciiEnginePrivate type_info node + 0xfe2d7c67
-------------------------
The strange looking characters in front of "BaseCmdHmLock" seem to be interpreted as UTF-8 unicode characters on my terminal but are in the end garbage. Aside from this,
the error message doesn't give a hint what the error really is.

Is this problem known or is it fixed in a newer epics release ?

Greetings,

Goetz Pfeiffer ([email protected], formerly Bessy Berlin)


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