From 07927c5b5e49ba79e295b4a76dce516e0d9d214f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 18:23:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added scanonce() note.

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 documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html b/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
index bd2e54132..eb0ca1647 100644
--- a/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
+++ b/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
@@ -248,6 +248,16 @@ routine if INDX is greater than MALM. In the event that the no data is read
 through the INP link, the subArray's UDF field will be set and a UDF/INVALID
 alarm will be generated.</p>
 
+<h4>scanOnce(precord) argument</h4>
+
+<p>The argument to <tt>scanOnce()</tt> is a pointer to the record to be
+scanned.  This used to be a <tt>void *</tt> pointer, but is now a <tt>dbCommon
+*</tt> pointer.  Record types written in C that call <tt>scanOnce()</tt> will
+still compile without having to change the source code (although a comiler
+warning may be generated), but any record types implemented in C++ will have to
+be fixed to cast the record instance pointer to a <tt>dbCommon *</tt>
+instead.</p>
+
 <h4>New Architectures</h4>
 
 <p>The following target architectures have been added to this release,