Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

> What happens if the record (I.e. longout) has PINI set to YES, but there is no VAL field set? Is 0 used as initial value?


Yes, my understanding is that any record field that does not have an "initial" value in its dbd file is set to 0.  For example this is the code for the ao record EOFF and ESLO fields in the dbd file in base 7.0.3.


    field(EOFF,DBF_DOUBLE) {
        prompt("EGU to Raw Offset")
        promptgroup("60 - Convert")
        pp(TRUE)
        interest(2)
    }
    field(ESLO,DBF_DOUBLE) {
        prompt("EGU to Raw Slope")
        promptgroup("60 - Convert")
        pp(TRUE)
        interest(2)
        initial("1")
    }

So ESLO is explicitly set to 1, but EOFF is implicitly set to 0.


> Does it make sense to have PINI=YES in such cases?

I am sure there are many existing cases where the database developer is relying on the initial value being implicitly 0 and using PINI=YES.

Also, even if the VAL field it not set in the dbd file or the database file, it could be set by autosave restore in iocInit.

Mark


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What happens if the record (I.e. longout) has PINI set to YES, but there is no VAL field set? Is 0 used as initial value? Does it make sense to have PINI=YES in such cases?

Thanks,
Hinko

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