Jeff Hill wrote:
Attached is a rough cut at the EPICS V4 CA protocol specification.
Thanks Jeff.
PS: Andrew, its fine to put this up on the web / wiki if you would like.
Great, I've now done that. Could we make the wiki version the canonical
one? It's a bit of a pain to convert as I've just discovered that the
converter I use discards the content of any table cell that consists of
just a numeric zero, so I had to add all your zero values back by hand
(I hope I didn't miss any!).
A couple of comments on the simpler stuff early on:
There is no single IEEE standard for a 128 bit float; there are many
possible 128 bit formats that can all legitimately claim to fall into
the IEEE754 category called Double Extended Precision. Your FLOAT128
doesn't specify which of these you'll be passing over the wire, although
I realise that you're probably wanting to use what is commonly referred
to as quadruple precision. RFC 1832 http://rfc.net/rfc1832.html#s3.8
defines this format for XDR, and I believe both 64-bit SPARC and PowerPC
CPUs support it natively, and possibly other recent chips too.
The bit numbering in the UINTN tables is wrong. The general case should
be that in Octet n (counting from 0), bits 6-0 contain bits n*7+6 thru
n*7 of the unsigned value, i.e. successive octets will contain bits 6-0,
13-7, 20-14 etc.
Note that I have not made any changes in the Wiki version other than
reformatting your distributed text.
- Andrew
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