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rec: mbbiDirect and mbboDirect refactoring

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Andrew Johnson
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@@ -15,6 +15,38 @@ EPICS Base 3.15.0.x releases are not intended for use in production systems.</p>
<h2 align="center">Changes between 3.15.0.1 and 3.15.0.2</h2>
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<h3>mbboDirect and mbbiDirect records</h3>
<p>These record types have undergone some significant rework, and will behave
slightly differently than they did in their 3.14 versions. The externally
visible changes are as follows:</p>
<h5>mbbiDirect</h5>
<ul>
<li>If the MASK field is set in a database file, it will not be over-written
when the record is initialized. This allows non-contiguous masks to be set,
although only the device support actually uses the MASK field.</li>
<li>If process() finds the UDF field to be set, the record will raise a
UDF/INVALID alarm.</li>
</ul>
<h5>mbboDirect</h5>
<ul>
<li>If the MASK field is set in a database file, it will not be over-written
when the record is initialized. This allows non-contiguous masks to be set,
although only the device support actually uses the MASK field.</li>
<li>After the device support's init_record() routine returns during record
initialization, if OMSL is <q>supervisory</q> and UDF is clear the fields
B0-BF will be set from the current VAL field.</li>
<li>When a put to the OMSL field sets it to <q>supervisory</q>, the fields
B0-BF will be set from the current VAL field. This did not used to happen,
the individual bit fields were previously never modified by the record.
Note that this change may require some databases to be modified, if they
were designed to take advantage of the previous behavior.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Redirection of the errlog console stream</h3>
<p>A new routine has been added to the errlog facility which allows the console