>> In the dbd files, link fields have no initial value defined.
...
>> Any reason for this difference?
Recently I bumped into the fact that there is a difference between
CONSTANT w/ pstring==NULL (if no default value is defined) and CONSTANT
w/ pstring=="" (a default value of "").
At least for DOL this makes a big difference as recGblInitConstantLink()
treats NULL as a no-op and "" as equivalent to "0", so a value of zero
is read from the link.
On 04/14/2015 04:32 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Hi Rolf,
>
> On 04/14/2015 10:57 AM, Rolf Keitel wrote:
>> Just out of interest:
>> In the dbd files, link fields have no initial value defined.
>> When I am loading a record
>> record(ao, "TEST:AO") {
>> }
>> and look with dbpr at the IOC console,
>> the OUT link has the value CONSTANT
>> the DOL link has the value CONSTANT
>> the FLNK link has the value CONSTANT 0.
>>
>> (similar with other record types)
>>
>> Any reason for this difference?
>
> I hadn't noticed before, but I so see the same pattern. There is no
> initial value given for FLNK in the dbCommon.dbd file so the in-memory
> contents should be the same, but both dbgf and caget show the different
> results.
>
> The dbStatic/dbStaticLib.c/dbGetString() routine is responsible for the
> difference; it has different code for handling INP/OUT links and FWD
> links since the set of flags supported is different. A constant FWD link
> field is always returned as the fixed string "0" whereas constant INP
> and OUT links return whatever string value they were set to (which must
> have been numeric or they wouldn't still be classified as constant links):
>
> epics> dbpf anj:ai.FLNK "123"
> DBR_STRING: "0"
> epics> dbpf anj:ai.SIML "123"
> DBR_STRING: "123"
>
> This does appear to be a bit of an anachronism, but I don't see it as a
> problem at all. Are you suggesting we should change this?
>
> - Andrew
>
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