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Subject: Problem in macLib macExpandString?
From: Mark Rivers <[email protected]>
To: EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 19:41:55 +0000
I am trying to use macLib to do macro substitution in base 3.15.5.  It is generally working.  However sometimes when there is an undefined macro the return value from macExpandString is not negative when it should be.

This is the code I am using to call macExpandString, with some debugging printf calls.  It prints the value returned by macValueExpand, as well as the input and output strings.

        // Create a temporary buffer 10 times larger than input buffer
        int bufferSize = buffer.length() * 10;
        char *tmpBuffer = (char *)malloc(bufferSize);
printf("Calling macExpandString, input length=%d, output buffer size=%d\n", (int)buffer.length(), bufferSize);
        status = macExpandString(macHandle, buffer.c_str(), tmpBuffer, bufferSize);
printf("macExpandString returned %d\n", status);
printf("input:\n########\n%s\n########\n\n", buffer.c_str());
printf("output:\n########\n%s\n########\n\n", tmpBuffer);


Here is an example.  In this case the CAMERA macro is not defined.

#####################################################################################################################
Calling macExpandString, input length=1013, output buffer size=10130
macLib: macro CAMERA is undefined (expanding string <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!-- Attributes -->
<Attributes
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../ADCore/XML_schema/NDAttributes.xsd"
    >
    <Attribute name="AcquireTime"         type="EPICS_PV" source="$(CAMERA)AcquireTime"         dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Camera acquire time"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent"         type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI"                dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent_EGU"     type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI.EGU"            dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current units"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy"           type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID)Energy"                  dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy_EGU"       type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID)Energy.EGU"              dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy units"/>
</Attributes>
)
macExpandString returned 1027
input:
########
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!-- Attributes -->
<Attributes
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../ADCore/XML_schema/NDAttributes.xsd"
    >
    <Attribute name="AcquireTime"         type="EPICS_PV" source="$(CAMERA)AcquireTime"         dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Camera acquire time"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent"         type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI"                dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent_EGU"     type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI.EGU"            dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current units"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy"           type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID)Energy"                  dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy_EGU"       type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID)Energy.EGU"              dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy units"/>
</Attributes>

########

output:
########
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!-- Attributes -->
<Attributes
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../ADCore/XML_schema/NDAttributes.xsd"
    >
    <Attribute name="AcquireTime"         type="EPICS_PV" source="$(CAMERA,undefined)AcquireTime"         dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Camera acquire time"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent"         type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI"                dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent_EGU"     type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI.EGU"            dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current units"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy"           type="EPICS_PV" source="ID13us:Energy"                  dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy_EGU"       type="EPICS_PV" source="ID13us:Energy.EGU"              dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy units"/>
</Attributes>

########

#####################################################################################################################

Note above that macExpand string is printing an error message as it should.  However, it is returning a positive integer 1037, while it should be returning a negative value because there was an undefined macro.


If instead of CAMERA being undefined I don't define ID instead I get this output:

#####################################################################################################################
Calling macExpandString, input length=1013, output buffer size=10130
macLib: macro ID is undefined (expanding string <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!-- Attributes -->
<Attributes
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../ADCore/XML_schema/NDAttributes.xsd"
    >
    <Attribute name="AcquireTime"         type="EPICS_PV" source="$(CAMERA)AcquireTime"         dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Camera acquire time"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent"         type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI"                dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent_EGU"     type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI.EGU"            dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current units"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy"           type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID)Energy"                  dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy_EGU"       type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID)Energy.EGU"              dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy units"/>
</Attributes>
)
macLib: macro ID is undefined (expanding string <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!-- Attributes -->
<Attributes
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../ADCore/XML_schema/NDAttributes.xsd"
    >
    <Attribute name="AcquireTime"         type="EPICS_PV" source="$(CAMERA)AcquireTime"         dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Camera acquire time"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent"         type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI"                dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent_EGU"     type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI.EGU"            dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current units"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy"           type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID)Energy"                  dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy_EGU"       type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID)Energy.EGU"              dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy units"/>
</Attributes>
)
macExpandString returned -1036
input:
########
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!-- Attributes -->
<Attributes
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../ADCore/XML_schema/NDAttributes.xsd"
    >
    <Attribute name="AcquireTime"         type="EPICS_PV" source="$(CAMERA)AcquireTime"         dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Camera acquire time"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent"         type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI"                dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent_EGU"     type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI.EGU"            dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current units"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy"           type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID)Energy"                  dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy_EGU"       type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID)Energy.EGU"              dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy units"/>
</Attributes>

########

output:
########
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!-- Attributes -->
<Attributes
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../ADCore/XML_schema/NDAttributes.xsd"
    >
    <Attribute name="AcquireTime"         type="EPICS_PV" source="13SIM1:cam1:AcquireTime"         dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Camera acquire time"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent"         type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI"                dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current"/>
    <Attribute name="RingCurrent_EGU"     type="EPICS_PV" source="S:SRcurrentAI.EGU"            dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Storage ring current units"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy"           type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID,undefined)Energy"                  dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy"/>
    <Attribute name="ID_Energy_EGU"       type="EPICS_PV" source="$(ID,undefined)Energy.EGU"              dbrtype="DBR_NATIVE"  description="Undulator energy units"/>
</Attributes>

########
#####################################################################################################################

This is behaving correctly, macExpandString is returning a negative number, -1036 as it should.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?


Thanks,
Mark


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