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Hi,

If you are running Stream Device and EPICS7 on a 64bit system,
following post will help you to solve the problem.

https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/StreamDevice/pull/52/commits

regards,

Noboru Yamamoto
Acc. control group
J-PARC/KEK 
JAPAN


----- Original Message -----
> Hello Techtalk, especially Dirk ..
> 
> After building a new EPICS7 installation, following the useful HOWTO (
Thanks!)
> https://docs.epics-controls.org/projects/how-tos/en/latest/getting-started/installation.html#install-streamdevice-by-dirk-zimoch-psi

> 
> 
> The IOC is up and running, and mostly working on an existing large (3K)
 record set.
> 
> dbior "stream"
> Driver: stream
>    StreamDevice 2.8.12 built Apr 27 2020 10:02:57
>    (C) 1999 Dirk Zimoch (dirk.zimoch at psi.ch)
>    registered bus interfaces:
>      DebugInterface
>      DummyInterface
>      AsynDriverInterface
> 
> But, it's not happy:
> > 2020/04/27 09:32:24.041808 S2 acq2106_182:2:SYNC:r: Format "%d" has 
data type signed which is not supported by "acq2106_182:2:SYNC:r".
> > 2020/04/27 09:32:24.042966 S0WR acq2106_182:0:WR:TS:rc: Format "%d" 
has data type signed which is not supported by "acq2106_182:0:WR:TS:rc".
> > 2020/04/27 09:32:24.044793 S3 acq2106_182:3:SYNC:r: Format "%d" has 
data type signed which is not supported by "acq2106_182:3:SYNC:r".
> > 2020/04/27 09:32:24.045783 S1_480 acq2106_182:1:ACQ480:TWO_LANE: 
Format "%d" has data type signed which is not supported by "acq2106_182:
1:ACQ480:TWO_LANE".
> > 2020/04/27 09:32:24.046208 S4_480 acq2106_182:4:ACQ480:TWO_LANE: 
Format "%d" has data type signed which is not supported by "acq2106_182:
4:ACQ480:TWO_LANE".
> 
> .. there are hundreds of them..
> 
> The existing records are mostly mbbi. The format should write into the 
VAL field.
> Other conversions, eg %s work OK.
> 
> Did base or StreamDevice tighten up the requirements for this?
> 
> The line of code that makes the message hasn't changed:
> StreamCore.cc#1317
>                              error("%s: Format \"%%%s\" has data type %
s which is not supported by \"%s\".\n",
>                                  name(), formatstring(), 
StreamFormatTypeStr[fmt.type], fieldAddress ? fieldName : name());
> 
> Our previous implementation was EPICS7 base, but really just EPICS3, 
no EPICS4. Now we've included EPICS4 (not that that should make a 
difference).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter
> 
> -- 
> Peter Milne
> Director of Sales
> www.d-tacq.com
> 

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