Re: 3.13. Device support report() documentation bug

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Ralph Lange wrote:
> why is it that the 3.13 App Developer's Guide says (in chapter 9 on page 
> 107) the DSET report() function should have a "FILE fp" as its first 
> argument?
> Sure enough dbior() (of src/sdb/dbTest.c) doesn't call it that way, and 
> none of base's device supports implements it.
> I'm just trying to follow the documentation (for a change) - which seems 
> to send me into a strange direction....
The R3.13 AppDevGuide was never edited post R3.13.0beta12, although even 
in that version the report function doesn't actually take a FILE fp 
argument.  In fact even going back to R3.12 I don't see that argument, 
so my guess is that someone was planning to add that argument but 
discovered that the change broke too many device supports so the idea 
was abandoned without remembering to fix the documentation.
I still have the FrameMaker source for the R3.13.0beta12 appDevGuide, 
but I'm not sure it's worth trying to revise it to fix all the bugs and 
bring it up to R3.13.10 at this point; does anyone disagree with that 
assessment?
- Andrew

PS: While we're on the subject of code archeology if anyone still has or 
can make a tarfile of any EPICS Base release earlier than R3.12.1 I 
would love to have a copy for the archives.
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