Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
Hi
it just happened to me for the second time: I deleted some unused code and
forgot to delete a corresponding line in the dbd file. It was a test stand and
it crashed even before iocInit and there was a warning before it happened, so
no damage, but still...
The line in the dbd file is a registrar entry, something like
registrar(xyz)
that registers some shell commands. This line is buried inside a support
module's dbd so the application's dbd file can include it. So it is quite easy
to forget to remove this line when you delete the code that implements the
xyz. There is no warning whatsoever until the IOC is run. Then you get:
Undefined symbol: pvar_func_xyz (binding 1 type 0)
and later:
TESTIOC1C_registerRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase)
VME Bus Error accessing A32: 0x8c3f6f40
machine check
Exception next instruction address: 0x8c3f6f40
Machine Status Register: 0x0008b030
Condition Register: 0x48200082
Task: 0x1d32f98 "tShell"
(The observed behaviour is of course to be expected.)
Is there a way to somehow warn the user at compile time that there is a
mismatch between the dbd file and the binary?
Note: This is with EPICS base R3.14.12.2 and vxWorks 5.4.2.
Cheers
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