Re: [EXTERNAL] lso record

[Ralph Lange via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

On Mon, 9 Sept 2024 at 21:33, Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

 

If you had used double-quotes in your first .db file this should have worked:

    field(VAL, "blabberblabberblub")

Should have, but doesn't.

With test.db being

record(lso, "lso:short") {
 field(VAL, "this is a short string")
}

record(lso, "lso:long") {
 field(SIZV, 100)
 field(VAL, "this is a very long string that would NEVER fit into 40 characters")
}

record(stringout, "so") {
   field(VAL, "this is a short string")
}

I am getting

ralph@debian-12:~/work/EPICS$ ./3.15.9/base/bin/linux-x86_64/softIoc -d test.db  
Can't set "lso:short.VAL" to "this is a short string"
Error at or before ")" in path "."  file "test.db" line 2
Can't set "lso:long.VAL" to "this is a very long string that would NEVER fit into 40 characters"
ErrordbLoadRecords: failed to load test.db
ralph@debian-12:~/work/EPICS$ ./7.0/base/bin/linux-x86_64/softIoc -d test.db  
Can't set "lso:short.VAL" to "this is a short string"  : Error (512,11)
ERROR:  at or before ')' in path "."  file "test.db" line 2

2 |   field(VAL, "this is a short string")

Can't set "lso:long.VAL" to "this is a very long string that would NEVER fit into 40 characters"  : Error (512,11)
ERROR:  
7 |   field(VAL, "this is a very long string that would NEVER fit into 40 characters")

ERROR failed to load 'test.db'
ERROR: Failed to load: test.db

(Note the double "failed to load" message which is also a - minor - bug.)

I have created issue tickets #548 and #549.

Cheers,
~Ralph