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Subject: Substitution files: change in behavior between 3.15.3 and 3.15.6
From: "Konrad, Martin" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:44:31 +0000
Hi Andrew,
I have a family of devices which consist of various building blocks.
Different models of the device are made up from a different mix of these
building blocks (some of which require macros and some don't). I'm
trying to build a .db file for each model by pulling the required bits
and pieces together. In the past I used something like the following:

file "a.db" {
  { }
}

file "b.db" {
  pattern
  { MACRO1 }
  { "foo"  }
  { "bar"  }
}

With EPICS 3.15.6 this doesn't work anymore. I get

msi: Parse error, unexpected '}'

I have to admit that my solution might not be the cleanest approach as
it probably depends on undefined behavior (neither the AppDev guide nor
the MSI website talk about this corner case). I'm wondering if you
consider the change in behavior a bug. I'm able to work around the
problem by using

file "a.db" {
  { DUMMY="" }
}

Is there a better way to solve my problem?

Thanks a lot,

Martin

P.S.: Seems like the following commit changed the behavior:
https://git.launchpad.net/epics-base/commit/?h=3.15&id=67e2b74758982fd46be5529e28fcb93fd7eb59ad

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Martin Konrad
High Performance Controls Team Leader
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Michigan State University
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East Lansing, MI 48824-1321, USA
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Email: [email protected]

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