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Subject: Re: CA monitoring weirdness for status/severity
From: Dohn Arms <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 11:05:26 -0500
That is correct.  From the 3.14.12.5 application developer's guide:

Field name The field name, which must be a valid C identifier. When include files are generated, the field name is
converted to lower case. Previous versions of EPICS required the field name be a maximum of four characters,
but this restriction no longer applies.

Dohn


On 08/08/2017 10:26 AM, Pete Jemian wrote:

On 8/8/2017 9:03 AM, Hogben, Colin H wrote:

OK, the test I am now using is: if the name ends with '.' and up to four uppercase letters which are not 'VAL' then ignore the status/severity. It seems to be working OK.  As for non-IOC PVs, I'll  cross that bridge when I come to it.

Isn't it allowed for a record's field to have more than 4 characters? It's not common but the CCDImageServer (pre-area detector software) included field names with more than 4 characters and also included one or more "." in some cases.

Pete


References:
CA monitoring weirdness for status/severity Hogben, Colin H
Re: CA monitoring weirdness for status/severity Johnson, Andrew N.
Re: CA monitoring weirdness for status/severity Hogben, Colin H
RE: CA monitoring weirdness for status/severity Mark Rivers
Re: CA monitoring weirdness for status/severity Hogben, Colin H
Re: CA monitoring weirdness for status/severity Johnson, Andrew N.
Re: CA monitoring weirdness for status/severity Hogben, Colin H
Re: CA monitoring weirdness for status/severity Pete Jemian

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