Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:25:36 -0600

Hi Guys,

On Tuesday 08 February 2011 15:40:14 Andrew Johnson proposed merging
> lp:~anj/epics-base/epicsEvent-api into lp:epics-base.
>
> For more details, see:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~anj/epics-base/epicsEvent-api/+merge/48992

The main thing I'd like comments on are whether the old C++ signal() method 
should throw an exception (which it didn't do before) or suspend the thread if 
it gets an error.  The new trigger() method does throw, while the original C 
routine epicsEventSignal(id) suspends.

>From the Windows users out there, was this a bad thing to do:
> The epicsShareAPI decorations (used on Windows only) have all been removed.

IIUC that only matters if someone is tries to call epicsEvent routines from a 
tool such as Visual Basic that only supports the old Pascal calling 
conventions.  I don't see that as a problem nowadays.

Thanks,

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System