Subject: |
Making VAL configurable [was: Hex constant as input to longin record?] |
From: |
Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> |
To: |
EPICS Techtalk <[email protected]> |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:13:07 +0200 |
Marty,
I prefer your solution; it is so simple, I ask myself why this wasn't
done when the link definition was changed so that "" != "0" (was that
3.13.1?).
> The bad effect is that users have two ways to define values for the VAL field,
> e.g. assign values to VAL itself or else assign values to the associated link
> field. Does this matter? Maybe not.
Definitely not. Anyway you'll have to have two ways if you want to be
backward compatible. Remember the solution for the linear conversion?
Something else: Some people might get different behavior with existing
databases because of VAL assignments which are now ignored. It should be
fairly easy, though, to run a simple (perl) script to detect such
assignments and throw them out if the default should be undefined value.
Anyway, each site can make this change by themselves.
Ben
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