Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Nerses Gevorgyan <[email protected]> · Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:51:53 -0500

Sure, this helps.
I modified as suggested and it works. Thanks a lot.

BTW, it wound be nice to have in the Record Reference Wiki an examples.

Like in the "MySQL reference manual", where for every command people

post their examples, sometimes not trivial examples. Later people could

use them instead of starting from scratch.

Probably, a similar thing exists already, but I don't know the place.

Regards,
Nerses

On 02/14/2012 01:34 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:

Hi Nerses,

On 2012-02-14 Nerses Gevorgyan wrote:

I'm trying to put into waveform record an array of STRINGs.

As I understood from waveform code and manual the VAL field is
a void pointer which should be supplied by user.

Sorry, if that's what the record reference manual says it's wrong.

The prec->val field is never actually used inside the record source code.
When you the access the VAL field of a waveform record through CA or a
database link, the data is actually fetched from the prec->bptr field, which
gets initialized in the first pass of record initialization to a point to a
buffer that holds NELM values of the type FTVL.  Device support should copy
its data into this buffer, never modify the prec->bptr field itself.

For a case of array of STRINGs it could have different organizations. Like:
1) elements delimited by NULLes
      aaa\0bbbbbb\0cc\0...
2) each element of array has a fixed length chars and the names then
padded with NULL-es like below
      aaa\0\0\0\0\0\0\0bbbbbb\0\0\0\0cc\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0

When FTVL=STRING the array elements are all MAX_STRING_SIZE=40 characters
long, thus when NELM=2 the buffer is 80 bytes long and the second string
element starts at offset 40 into the buffer.

Hope this helps,

- Andrew

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System