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Subject: Re: genSub to aSub conversion
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: "EPICS tech-talk" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 20:57:12 -0500
Hi Emmanuel,

On Thursday 20 May 2010 19:32:25 [email protected] wrote:
>
> I am migrating from epics base 3.14.9 to 3.14.11
> I compiled genSub under 3.14.11 for backward compatibility
> But I heard that aSub now replaces genSub.
> Is it just a matter or replacing the record name?
> ... I cannot believe it can be that easy...

Unless you are using some of the more obscure features of the genSub, it is 
just a matter of changing the record type in both your .db files and in the 
source code to the subroutines.

> Is there an official document to migrate from  genSub to aSub?

No, other than probably a note in the Release Notes -- sorry.

- Andrew
-- 
The best FOSS code is written to be read by other humans -- Harald Welte


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