Re: EPICS r3.13 field DESC length

[wlupton@keck.hawaii.edu (William Lupton)]

Dear all,

Marty wrote:
> Also think of precedent being set. Will we have an endless set of
> xxxwarn attributes for each field description?

Fair comment.

> Note also that the warning message is telling the application engineer
> that he/she has given a value that will not appear as specified in the
> database. It really is a database configuration error.

I had assumed that the default DESC strings were somehow in base, but in
fact I think this is not the case: the defaults are in the Capfast symbols.
Perhaps we should at least ensure that none of the default DESC strings in
the symbols exceeds the limit and triggers the warning?

Finally, I can't help following Andy's lead and asking why there is no
record field that indicates the record type. I believe that this could
often be useful. What about RTYP?

William