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Merged my ioc-arch branch, manually re-based

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Andrew Johnson
2016-04-28 19:26:11 -05:00
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<h2 align="center">Changes made on the 3.15 branch since 3.15.3</h2>
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<h3>IOC environment variables and build parameters</h3>
<p>The IOC now sets a number of environment variables at startup that provide
the version of EPICS Base it was built against (EPICS_VERSION_...) and its build
architecture (ARCH). In some cases this allows a single iocBoot/ioc directory to
be used to run the same IOC on several different architectures without any
changes.</p>
<p>There are also 3 new environment parameters (EPICS_BUILD_...) available that
C/C++ code can use to find out the target architecture, OS class and compiler
class it was built with. These may be useful when writing interfaces to other
languages.</p>
<h3>New implementation of promptgroup/gui_group field property</h3>
<p>The mechanism behind the "promptgroup()" field property inside a record type