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Subject: Re: Last chance to save the sequencer's pv layer
From: Ben Franksen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:56:35 +0100
Hi Andrew

On Montag, 15. November 2010, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> On Sunday 14 November 2010 11:25:47 Ben Franksen wrote:
> > If you are using the pv layer for anything (other than as
> > obligatory bridge to CA as required by previous sequencer
> > versions), or if you think that there are other important reasons
> > to keep it, this is your last chance to save it, otherwise it's
> > going to pay its debt to nature.
>
> Fine by me.

Good.

> While you're making sequencer changes, could you replace all
> instances of OFFSET(s,m) (from dbDefs.h) with the standard macro
> offsetof(s,m) in the sequencer code; I'd like to retire that macro in
> the 3.15 releases since it really is a direct replacement and I think
> the sequencer is its last major user.

The sequencer defines its own version (in seqCom.h) if it is not already 
defined; anyway I already removed it in my working version, so consider 
it done ;-)

Cheers
Ben

References:
Attention, poll: Who needs the sequencer's pv layer? Ben Franksen
Last chance to save the sequencer's pv layer Ben Franksen
Re: Last chance to save the sequencer's pv layer Andrew Johnson

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