Database definition (.dbd) files can now contain declarations of simple
static variables, a facility intended for driver debugging purposes. These
-variable(name) declarations are preserved by dbExpand, and will
-be converted by registerRecordDeviceDriver.pl into code that registers them
-with iocsh. The variables themselves must be defined in some existing C or
-C++ code and marked using the macro epicsExportAddress(type,
-name). The initial implementation only supports integers, but other
-types will be added soon.
variable(name) or variable(name,type) declarations
+are preserved by dbExpand (type is int if omitted),
+and will be converted by registerRecordDeviceDriver.pl into code that
+registers them with iocsh. The variables themselves must be defined in some
+existing C or C++ code and marked using the macro
+epicsExportAddress(type,name). Only plain int and
+double types are supported.
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