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Merged Dirk Zimoch's named-soft-events branch

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Added the iocsh command postEvent
Marked a couple of char * args as const
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Andrew Johnson
2012-04-10 17:10:50 -05:00
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@@ -15,6 +15,18 @@ EPICS Base 3.15.0.x releases are not intended for use in production systems.</p>
<h2 align="center">Changes between 3.14.x and 3.15.0.x</h2>
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<h4>Named Soft Events</h4>
<p>Soft events can now be given meaningful names instead of just using the
numbers 1-255. The EVNT field is now a DBF_STRING. The <tt>post_event()</tt> API
is now deprecated but still works. It should be replaced by code that in advance
looks up the <tt>EVNTPVT</tt> event handle associated with the named event by
calling <tt>eventNameToHandle(char *)</tt>, and when that event occurs passes
that handle to the new <tt>postEvent(EVNTPVT)</tt> routine (which may be called
from interrupt level). A new iocsh command <tt>postEvent <i>name</i></tt> will
trigger a named event from the command-line or a startup script (on vxWorks the
expression <tt>postEvent(eventNameToHandle("<i>name</i>"))</tt> must be used
instead though).</p>
<h4>Parallel Builds</h4>