Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Hu, Yong" <[email protected]> · Wed, 30 May 2012 04:15:27 +0000

Have you tried field(CALC, "A==1?1:0") instead of  field(CALC, "A=1?1:0") on your VME system?

Yong

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of J. Lewis Muir [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 11:09 PM
To: EPICS Tech Talk
Subject: calc VAL field not updating from bi VAL field

I've got a problem where a calc record's VAL field is not
updating when I expect it to.

I load the following database into my IOC:

calc-bi.db >>>
record(bi, "$(P)Unidig1Bi1") {
  field(ZNAM, "Low")
  field(ONAM, "High")
}

record(calc, "$(P)ClcBacklightBi") {
  field(INPA, "$(P)Unidig1Bi1.VAL CP MS")
  field(CALC, "A=1?1:0")
}
<<<

like this:

st.cmd >>>
...
dbLoadRecords("calc-bi.db","P=17lab:")
...
<<<

I then start camonitor:

camonitor console >>>
$ camonitor 17lab:ClcBacklightBi.VAL 17lab:ClcBacklightBi.A
17lab:ClcBacklightBi.VAL       2012-05-29 19:48:44.845452 1 LINK
INVALID
17lab:ClcBacklightBi.A         2012-05-29 19:48:44.845452 0 LINK
INVALID
<<<

And then I perform a series of caput commands in another console:

caput console >>>
$ caput 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL 0
Old : 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL           Low
New : 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL           Low
$ caput 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL 1
Old : 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL           Low
New : 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL           High
$ caput 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL 0
Old : 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL           High
New : 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL           Low
$ caput 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL 1
Old : 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL           Low
New : 17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL           High
<<<

camonitor shows the following:

camonitor console >>>
17lab:ClcBacklightBi.VAL       2012-05-29 21:11:28.307312 1
17lab:ClcBacklightBi.A         2012-05-29 21:11:28.307312 0
17lab:ClcBacklightBi.A         2012-05-29 21:11:33.423978 1
17lab:ClcBacklightBi.A         2012-05-29 21:11:36.990645 0
17lab:ClcBacklightBi.A         2012-05-29 21:12:32.507352 1
<<<

As you can see, the 17lab:ClcBacklightBi record's VAL field
updates once when the record first processes and then never
again.  The "A" field is updating correctly as I change
17lab:Unidig1Bi1.VAL, but 17lab:ClcBacklightBi.VAL never updates
again.

If I change the CALC expression to "A", the VAL field updates
correctly.  If I change it back, it stops working again.

Environment:
* VME processor module: Motorola MVME-2100 (vxWorks-ppc603)
  - CPU: MPC 8240
  - Memory: 32 MB
* OS: VxWorks 5.5.2
* Kernel: WIND 2.6
* BSP: mv2100-asd5 (by Andrew Johnson)
* Build toolchain: Tornado 2.2.2
* EPICS 3.14.12.2 (+Known Problems patches)

I tried this on darwin-x86 (x86_64) and it did not fail, so to
date it is only failing for me on my VME systems.  (I initially
discovered the problem on an MVME-5100.)

This worked fine with older software (i.e. VxWorks 5.4.2 with
EPICS 3.14.11) on my VME systems.

Thanks,

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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