Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:16:42 -0600

Hi Josh,

On 2012-01-25 Josh Stein wrote:
> This does not seem to function properly on my 3.14.11 Windows softIOC:
> 
> epics>dbpf "wst:v13C","1"
> Illegal choice PV: wst:v13C  1
> 
> filename="../dbTest.c" line number=333
> Illegal choice - dbPutField error

> Is this a feature, flaw, or user error on my part?

This is a combination of a minor bug in dbpf that I introduced into R3.14.10 
and a problem with sscanf() from the MinGW C run-time library which you were 
using.  Mark does not see the issue because he's probably using a win32-x86 
target while you're using win32-x86-mingw. The dbpf bug gets masked by the IOC 
performing the conversion elsewhere, except this particular sscanf() bug 
caused that conversion to fail as well.

I've added a patch to the R3.14.12 Known Problems page which fixes both of 
these.  The patch can also be applied to fix this problem in earlier versions 
of Base back to R3.14.10, although I haven't tried that and you might have to 
make the changes manually in some cases.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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