Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012, 00:14:47 schrieb Andrew Johnson:
> On 2012-03-15 Hinko Kocevar wrote:
> > Are there any plans on adding support for 64-bit types to menuFtype (for
> > 3.14.x branch)?
>
> This will definitely never happen on the 3.14.x branch, and probably not on
> the 3.15.x branch either (there should be a 3.15.0 release out this
> summer).
>
> > Are there any workarounds for this issue?
>
> This idea is really horrible but it should work as long as you're very
> careful: If you are responsible for the device support and all the CA
> client programs and you can do any IOC-based processing that is necessary
> inside a subroutine or aSub record then you could pretend to the IOC code
> that your 64- bit data types are epicsFloat64 (i.e. double) values and use
> casts to convert them back and forth.  However you won't be able to use
> any of the standard tools to look at the values, and I really don't
> recommend doing this.

Somewhat less horrible is a DBF_NOACCESS field with an epicsInt64 C
declaration as 'extra' property... you still have no 'official' outside access
to the field, but at least the field type documents that.

Cheers
Ben

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menuFtype for 64 bit integers aka. long long and unsigned long long Hinko Kocevar

Re: menuFtype for 64 bit integers aka. long long and unsigned long long Andrew Johnson

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