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Subject: RE: what are your definitions of softIOC and soft record?
From: "Hu, Yong" <[email protected]>
To: "'Benjamin Franksen'" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:35:53 +0000
I may improve it a little bit further: ... the INP or OUT link must be of either type pv_link or type constant link (CONSTANT). PV_LINK (its value is 1) is converted to either DB_LINK (10) or CA_LINK (11) during iocInit. CONSTANT (0) is the default for INP/OUT: if you don't put the INP/OUT field in your record such as record(ai, "myRecord"){}, the INP/OUT is constant link. Wow, links are powerful, but are complicated as well.  

Cheers,

Yong  

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Benjamin Franksen
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 9:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: what are your definitions of softIOC and soft record?

...

> 2. soft record: any record not associated with real hardware is a soft 
> record. The DTYP field of a soft record is "Soft Channel" (default for 
> DTYP), "Raw Soft Channel", or "Async Soft Channel".

Yes. You could improve this definition by stating that the INP or OUT link must be of type pv_link (in teh sense of link.h in base), which includes any potential future "soft" support type.

Cheers
--
Ben Franksen



References:
what are your definitions of softIOC and soft record? Jack Smith
Re: what are your definitions of softIOC and soft record? Benjamin Franksen

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