Re: order of DTYP and INP/OUT fields in db-Files and vdct

[Marty Kraimer <mrk@aps.anl.gov>]

Thomas Birke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we just found the "feature" again, that in record-sections of 
> db-files, the DTYP field has to be set before the INP or OUT field (at 
> least for INST_IO), it took us an hour or two to track this down.
> I didn't search for that in the AppDevGuide and other docs, since I'm 
> afraid (and definitely hope), I'll find that documented, since I found 
> tha last reference to that "feature" on tech-talk back in '99. It was 
> undocumented back then...
Section 6.12 of the latest 3.14 Application Developers Guide contains a 
subsection 6.12.2 which is titled "definitions" look for

DBF_INLINK, DBF_OUTLINK

In the NOTES it states that DTYP must be defined before the associated 
INP or OUT field.

I looked and this note appears in the earliest 3.14 version of the 
appDevGuide.