There is nothing wrong with your database. You have discovered a bug.
The release notes show that a change was made to mbboRecord
>mbboRecord
>Field VAL now has a cvt_dbaddr method. If any state strings are defined the
>field type and dbr_field_type are declared ENUM. If no state strings are
>defined then the type is USHORT. Previously the types were always ENUM.
This change was OK. HOWEVER.
At iocInit time the following happens:
1) init_record is called for all records with pass=0
2) All links except INP and OUT are resolved.
This causes the stringout record DOL link to be resolved.
3) init_record is called for all records with pass=1
It is during this pass that mbboRecord looks to see
if any strings have been defined
Since DOL is resolved BEFORE the mbboRecord has looked for strings,
the cvt_dbaddr of the mbboRecord sets the type to USHORT.
The fix will be to make mbboRecord look for strings being defined during pass=0.
Marty Kraimer
Bill Cruise wrote:
I'm finally getting back to my 3.13B11 to 3.13.8 upgrade and tackling
all the interesting little problems introduced therein. This one is
a bit more perplexing, so I'd like to ask about it before throwing
a fix at it. I'll also present a simplified case, rather than the
convoluted one in my system.
The test case database is simply this:
an mbbi VAL is connected to a stringIn INP
an mbbo VAL is connected to a stringOut DOL
Both the mbbi and mbbo have a few enum strings defined.
In 3.13B11 I get strings in the string records in either case.
In 3.13.8 I get strings with the mbbi, but get the corresponding
numerals in the stringOut record with the mbbo. You can imagine what
this does to downstream processing that expects strings! If I use
dbgf or caget, I do get strings right out of the mbbo.
I guess the first question is whether there has been a change in how
these record interconnections are supposed to work. If so, I'll just
have to switch all my mbbo's to mbbi's in cases like this.
And, the second, most obvious, question is what am I doing wrong!
This is also, by far, the most likely case.
Thanks for any help on this one.
Bill
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