Experimental Physics and
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"Jeff Hill" <[email protected]> · Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:27:26 -0700

Yes, there were two new features merged into CA for the R3.14.12 patch
release. I will have a look.

PS: IMHO, we can consider that risk is reduced if only patches are merged
into patch releases. Perhaps new features are best placed in point releases.

Jeff
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-talk-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Johnson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:43 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Problem using large arrays with Channel Access in EPICS
> 3.14.12
> 
> On Tuesday 11 January 2011 15:21:32 Till Straumann wrote:
> > Could be a limitation of the CA protocol
> 
> No, this is as a result of changes in src/rsrv between 3.14.11 and
> 3.14.12
> because large arrays work fine in 3.14.11.
> 
> We introduced two major new features in the latest release, CA over TCP
> and
> dynamic array sizing, and one of them (most probably the latter) has
> broken
> the correct reporting of the element count.  The CA protocol solved the
> problem of only a having a 16 bit m_count field a long time ago, but it
> looks
> like that hack^H^H^H^Hsolution didn't get propagated into the latest
> code.
> 
> - Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System