Re: misleading error message from dbLoadRecords in Epics 3.14.8.2

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

Hi Goetz,

On Tuesday 09 June 2009 04:28:19 Goetz Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> The strange looking characters in front of "BaseCmdHmLock" seem to be
> interpreted
> as UTF-8 unicode characters on my terminal but are in the end garbage.
> Aside from this,
> the error message doesn't give a hint what the error really is.
>
> Is this problem known or is it fixed in a newer epics release ?

There was significant work done on on the error reporting by dbStaticLib for 
R3.14.10.  Now if you forget to call the registerRecordDeviceDriver routine 
you should see this error message the first time it tries to create a record 
instance:

    *** Did you run x_RegisterRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase) yet? ***
    dbAllocRecord(<name>) with <type> rec_size = 0

Note that when you see failures like this, you should always concentrate on 
the very first error message displayed since later errors are likely to be 
inaccurate as a result of the earlier failures.

HTH,

- Andrew
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