Re: checking the content of the waveform record

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

Chestnut, Ronald P. wrote:
> My first take would be a simple subroutine record which does the
> compares you want and returns success or failure.

Make that a genSub record if possible so it can read both waveforms 
automatically through its input links (the genSub can transfer scalars 
or arrays through its link fields).  Then all you need to do is compare 
the array elements inside the C subroutine and set VAL to a true/false 
result.

- Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov
> [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Vladimir
> Sirotenko
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 11:49 AM
> To: EPICS tech-talk
> Subject: checking the content of the waveform record
>
> Does anyone know what is the easiest way to check the content of the
> waveform record against predefined one? There is a record with 36
> elements and we have to raise an alarm if any of it's elements is
> differ from reference one. Of cource I can use many subArray records,
> one for every waveform element, then several calc records and so on
> .. But may be there is more elegant way of doing that?
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir


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