Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

> However, dbGetLinkValue does not exist in any .h or .c file.  So the documentation does not match the actual API.

> Surprisingly to me this change in the API is also not mentioned in the 3.15.* release notes.

> Two of the error messages in dbGetLink in dbLink.c still say the function name is dbGetLinkValue, which is incorrect.
> ./src/ioc/db/dbLink.c:        printf("dbGetLinkValue: Use of poptions no longer supported\n");
> ./src/ioc/db/dbLink.c:        cantProceed("dbGetLinkValue: Illegal link type %d\n", plink->type);

> However, I think the intent all along was that you should get dbGetLink(), not dbGetLinkValue().  Previous dbGetLink was a macro that called dbGetLinkValue().  Now dbGetLink is no longer a macro, it is the C function that you should call.

Correct. dbGetLink() was a macro that only actually called the dbGetLinkValue() routine if there was something for it to do; passing *nRequest==0 allowed you to fetch metadata such as an array length without getting the actual data. Since everyone was supposed to be using dbGetLink() I removed the short-circuit and renamed the routine while cleaning up the code.

- Andrew