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Subject: Re: base 3-14-11 and breakpoint tables for ai and ao
From: "J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:34:51 -0500
On 11/4/10 8:36 PM, Mark Clift wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have noticed that breakpoint tables in base 3-14-11 require the
> table name to be all numeric characters.  This appears consistent with
> line 634 in dbStaticRun.c, where the first non numeric character must
> be '\0'.  However, according to page 105 of the 3-14-11 application
> developers guide, the breakpoint table name can consist of any
> alpha-numeric characters.  So, there seems a problem here. ?  For now,
> I am renaming my breakpoint tables.
> 
> Anyone else find similar issues ?

Hi, Mark.

I have found no such restriction.  I can use a breakpoint table named
ImcaXiaPfcu4AC with an ai record (e.g. 'field(LINR, "ImcaXiaPfcu4AC")')
with EPICS 3.14.11 (+ patches) on darwin-x86 without a problem.

Lewis

-- 
J. Lewis Muir
Software Engineer
IMCA-CAT

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