StreamDevice Release Notes

CVS snapshot

Fixed bugs

• Compiler errror on solaris
• %*c or %*s crashes when input is empty

Version 2.4

Fixed bugs

• @init handler does not work for vxi11 ports
• Parser bug in %B format
• Alignment bug in StreamBuffer::reserve()
• Bug in StreamBuffer::replace(0,n,xxx,0)
• First bit lost when reading %b or %B format
• Skipped formats at end of input fail on vxWorks
• Bug in StreamBuffer::find() with 1 char strings
• Signed/unsigned conversion on 64 bit machines
• Stack overflow in "I/O Intr" when input consists of many lines
• Data loss in "I/O Intr" when input > 600 bytes

New features

• Unsigned integer support for %r format
• Little endian bitorder for %b and %B format
• Raw floating point format %R
• Some strange floating point format like "-123-2" for -1.23: %m
• Patch for asyn driver version 4.10

Version 2.3

Fixed bugs

• Input to "I/O Intr" records before iocInit crashes ioc
• Skipped charset format (%*[charset]) crashes ioc
• disconnect did not always work

New features

• Perl regular expression matching
• More checksums

API changes

• disconnect gives callback.

Version 2.2

Fixed bugs

• Dealock if exec command accesses same asyn bus
• InTerminator="" for only some protocols did not work
• Waveform read bug when reading less than NELM elements
• Auto-registration problem when using static libraries (e.g. vxWorks, cygwin, ...)
• @mismatch handler missing
• Crash in streamReload
• "asynOverflow" with GPIB
• Problems with "I/O Intr" mode

New features

• %(field) and %(record.field) redirection syntax
• Support for aai and aao records (disabled by default)
• connect / disconnect commands
• Use terminators of underlying driver (asyn) if not defined in protocol
• Support for EPICS 3.13.7+
• Support for Windows
• Support for RTEMS
• Patches for EPICS 3.14.9
• Patches for gcc 4.1.1

API changes

• Names of converter classes shortened
• Return type of StreamFormatConverter::print*() changed from int to bool.

Version 2.1

Fixed bugs

• Several compiler errors and crashes on solaris, with Tornado 2.0.2, or on 68k processors
• Format converter bugs in %D, %[...], %{...}
• Bug in terminator recognition in "I/O Intr" mode

New features

• Support for sCalcout (synApps)
• More checksums

API changes

• New naming convention for record interfaces
• Makefile changes
• Separate print*() functions for StreamFormatConverters

Version 2.0

This version has been rewritten from scratch.

New features

• EPICS R3.14 support (architecture independent)
• Modular and extensible programming (in C++)
• New features in protocol language (backward compatible)
  • User variables
  • Exception handlers
  • References to other protocols
• New formats (including checksums)
• Support for asynDriver