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<h2>Changes since beta2</h2>
</center>
<p><strong>function - New Database Definition Keyword</strong></p>
<p>dbStaticLib and related programs now accept a new keyword in DBD files:</p>
<pre>function(name)</pre>
<p>Where '<span style="font-family: courier">name</span>' is the name of a
function with "C" linkage that is included in the IOC binary. This function
will be automatically registered with the registry at the same time as the
record/device/driver tables, and is intended to make using subroutine records
much easier on non-vxWorks systems.. Prior R3.14 releases required there to
be a static registration routine for such subroutines.</p>
<p>dbStaticLib has two additional routines to support this, dbDumpFunction()
and dbWriteFunctionFP(). dbDumpFunction has been added to the iocsh command
table.</p>
<p><strong>iocsh</strong></p>
<p>When executing commands from a script file, iocsh now echoes each command
to the terminal before execution. This makes it much easier to see where
errors are being reported.</p>
<p><strong>Solaris build requirement</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: courier">uname</span> must be defined for builds
on solaris hosts because it is used to determine the solaris version.</p>
<p><strong>RULES.Db</strong></p>
<p>A <span style="font-family: courier">*[</span><span
style="font-family: courier">nn</span><span
style="font-family: courier">].</span><span
style="font-family: courier">db</span> file will be created from an <span
style="font-family: courier">*.template</span> and a <span
style="font-family: courier">*[nn].substitutions</span> file ,where <span
style="font-family: courier">nn</span> has a value between 0 and 99.</p>
<p><strong>Support for 64 bit long</strong></p>
<p>Many changes were made to support architectures on which a long is a 64
@@ -41,8 +78,7 @@ bit integer. The basic change was to change:</p>
<p>The various parts of hardware link definitions now accept HEX values,
e.g.</p>
<pre>field(INP,"L0 A1 C0 S0xa @")
</pre>
<pre>field(INP,"L0 A1 C0 S0xa @")</pre>
<p>NOTES:</p>
<ul>
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more efficient posix implementation.</li>
<li>If PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE is provided then the implementation uses
only pthread_mutex. This is much faster (2 to 3 times as fast) as the
previous implementation. </li>
previous implementation.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Mac OS X</strong></p>
<p>Now supported as development platform and as IOC.
<p>Now supported as development platform and as IOC.</p>
<p><strong>RTEMS</strong></p>
<p>Additional RTEMS-pc386 network drivers are available</p>
<p><strong>iocsh</strong></p>
<p>Configurable iocsh command-line editing support (none, readline, libtecla)</p>
<p>Configurable iocsh command-line editing support (none, readline,
libtecla)</p>
<center>
<h2>Changes since beta1</h2>