Re: Why should I care about breakpoint table monotonicity?

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Emmanuel,

On 11/22/2013 12:56 PM, Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
>  > In 3.14.x the same code that loads DBD files into the IOC is used in the
>  > dbExpand program, so it does the same checking. You can give dbExpand a
>  > -b flag to disable the monotonicity check though. Put
>  > DBEXPAND += -b
>  > into your Makefile to add that flag to all calls to dbExpand (there is a
>
> Not in 3.14.11...
No, it was added in 3.14.12.2, almost 2 years ago:

revno: 12295
author: benjamin.franksen@helmholtz-berlin.de
committer: Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>
branch nick: 3.14
timestamp: Mon 2011-11-21 11:33:26 -0600
message:
  dbStatic: Added -b option to dbExpand

  -b turns off monotonic checking of breakpoint tables.

You may be able to apply the changes to your copy though, see
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~epics-core/epics-base/3.14/revision/12295


> Am I missing something?
3.14.11 is over 4 years old now, maybe consider upgrading? 3.14.12.4 
will be out soon.
- Andrew
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