Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:34:47 -0500

On 9/28/10 6:07 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 September 2010 17:56:40 J. Lewis Muir wrote:
>> On 9/28/10 5:45 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
>>> What do people think of the idea of increasing the size of the CALC field
>>> beyond 40 characters for R3.14.12?
>>
>> I like the idea.
> 
> To what size?

How about 64.

> Sorry, I should have included that question in my original post, I assumed 
> anyone answering in the positive would suggest a better number...

And I assumed you had a reasonable number in mind. :-)

I have less than 400 calc records in each of my IOCs, and each IOC has
32 MB of memory or more.  So, increasing the size of the CALC field is
not a problem for me.  (I'd even be OK w/ a size of 128.)  But I know
you or others may have different usage patterns.

I just like the idea in general because I know I've had times when I've
ran into the CALC field length limit.

If this change is made, I would hope it would be made for the calcout
CALC and OCAL fields too.

And, not in EPICS base, but it would be great if the acalcout and
scalcout records in the synApps calc module could get similar size
changes since I've run into their field length limits before too.

Thanks,

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System