Extended asTrapWrite to provide put data

Backwards-compatible enhancement to the asTrapWrite API to provide
listener routines with the data being put by the client.
The asTrapWriteMessage structure is extended with 3 new fields
for data type, element count and a pointer to the source buffer.

Tim Mooney requested this enhancement for his caPutRecorder code,
which doesn't work if the record overwrites the new value within
its process() routine, e.g. when jogging a motor record.
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Andrew Johnson
2015-02-16 16:30:52 -06:00
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<h3>Enhanced API for asTrapWrite listeners</h3>
<p>External software such as the CA Put Logging module that registers a listener
with the asTrapWrite subsystem was not previously given access to the actual
data being sent by the CA client. In most cases this was not a problem as the
listener can look at the field being modified both before and after the
operation, but if the put processes the record which immediately overwrites the
new value, the client's value cannot be observed.</p>
<p>This release adds three fields to the asTrapWriteMessage structure that is
passed to the listener routines. These new fields provide the CA data type, the
number of array elements, and a pointer to the source data buffer. This change
is completely backwards compatible with listener code written against the
original API. The new API can be detected at compile-time as follows:</p>
<blockquote><pre>
#include "asLib.h"
/* ... */
#ifdef asTrapWriteWithData
/* Enhanced API */
#endif
</pre></blockquote>
<h3>Back-ported the <q>tapfiles</q> build target from 3.15</h3>
<p>This GNUmake target runs the same tests as the <q>runtests</q> target, but