Re: IOC to use time from its own processor

[Dehong Zhang <dhzhang@fnal.gov>]

Hi Andrew,

Sorry to bother you so much!

Since i don't have an event, shall I remove the "if" statement?

Thanks much and best regards,
Dehong




----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008 2:04 pm
Subject: Re: IOC to use time from its own processor
To: Dehong Zhang <dhzhang@fnal.gov>
Cc: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov


> On Thursday 06 November 2008 13:51:26 Dehong Zhang wrote:
> >
> > Thanks much.  Now I get a lot of:
> > ... recGblGetTimeStamp failed
> >
> > It seems the recGblGetTimeStamp method is trying to check
> > the timestamp event, which we don't have.
> 
> Ah, I forgot that recGblGetTimeStamp() uses the getEvent() routine 
> with an 
> event number of 0 to get record timestamps.  On R3.14.8 you need to 
> provide 
> and register getEvent() routine as well (instead of the NULL second 
> argument 
> to iocClockRegister()).  The code should look like this:
> 
> int clockGetEvent (epicsTimeStamp *pDest, int event)
> {
>     if (event == epicsTimeEventCurrentTime) {
>         return clockGetCurrent (pDest);
>     }
>     return -1;
> }
> 
> - Andrew
> -- 
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