Re: ASYN/devGPIB/GPIBCVTIO problem

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

John Dobbins wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification. The Record Reference Manual (Chapter 1) 
> reads:
>
> "For input links such as INP or DOL (desired output location), if they 
> specify PP, they will cause the record whose address they contain to 
> process when the records containing them are processed ... This means 
> that the value will be retrieved from the specified record only after 
> the record has processed its data."
>
> Which I had understood to mean that the input link would in fact fetch a 
> fresh value.

Your understanding of what was written was correct, unfortunately the 
wording is actually wrong.  I have modified the Wiki version of this 
paragraph to mention the async behavior, although it really needs 
someone knowledgable to go through this chapter to find and fix up this 
kind of problem with the wording.  Any volunteers out there?

- Andrew
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