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| Subject: | Array data in db files? |
| From: | Ralph Lange <[email protected]> |
| To: | EPICS Core-Talk <[email protected]> |
| Date: | Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:45:59 +0200 |
Just thinking aloud...I remember a number of situations where users were complaining about not being able to set array data from within the .db file. (To specify default values for waveform or compress records.)
Right now I am facing (reviewing) design documents of device support for a very versatile card that supports routing its inputs and outputs to a multitude of PCI/PCIe backplane signals. Stuff that cries for mbbi/mbbo type records that are not limited to 16 states. If option strings, values, severities were arrays, such records might be fairly easy to implement.
Has extending the DB syntax to cover array data been considered at some point?
Cheers, ~Ralph