EPICS FW: unsigned long record value

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I meant to send this to the list as well.

From: Mark Rivers
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:58 AM
To: Patrick Thomas
Subject: RE: unsigned long record value

The VAL field of a longin record is an epicsInt32. That is the same size as an epicsUInt32. The difference is just in the interpretation of the bit pattern. Do you need to represent positive numbers greater than 2^31-1 (2147483647) in your application? If not then there is no problem just using the epicsInt32 as is.

If you do, then depending on the application, you may be able to just cast the epicsInt32 to epicsUInt32 to interpret the value as an unsigned number.

Mark

From: Patrick Thomas [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wed 6/9/2010 11:05 PM
To: Mark Rivers
Subject: Re: unsigned long record value

Are those large enough to hold an unsigned value?

Thank you,
Patrick

Mark Rivers wrote:
> The longin record will hold DBF_LONG values.
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> From: [email protected] on behalf of Patrick Thomas
> Sent: Wed 6/9/2010 8:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: unsigned long record value
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> Hi,
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> Is there a record like the ai record that will hold unsigned long values?
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> Thank you,
> Patrick
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Subject:	FW: unsigned long record value
From:	"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]>
To:	"EPICS tech-talk" <[email protected]>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:26:12 -0500

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