Fixed a bug in readInt32 and prepared the turboPmac library to serve the

detectorTower library

src/turboPmacController.h

@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
 #include "turboPmacAxis.h"
 
 class turboPmacController : public sinqController {
-
   public:
     /**
-     * @brief Construct a new turboPmacController object
+     * @brief Construct a new turboPmacController object. This function is meant
+    to be called from a child class constructor.
      *
      * @param portName            See sinqController constructor
      * @param ipPortConfigName    See sinqController constructor
@@ -26,10 +26,12 @@ class turboPmacController : public sinqController {
      * @param comTimeout          When trying to communicate with the device,
     the underlying asynOctetSyncIO interface waits for a response until this
     time (in seconds) has passed, then it declares a timeout.
+     * @param numExtraParams      Number of extra parameters from a child class
      */
     turboPmacController(const char *portName, const char *ipPortConfigName,
                         int numAxes, double movingPollPeriod,
-                        double idlePollPeriod, double comTimeout);
+                        double idlePollPeriod, double comTimeout,
+                        int numExtraParams = 0);
 
     /**
      * @brief Get the axis object
@@ -49,6 +51,17 @@ class turboPmacController : public sinqController {
      */
     turboPmacAxis *getAxis(int axisNo);
 
+    /**
+     * @brief Overloaded function of sinqController
+     *
+     * The function is overloaded in order to read motorCanDisable_
+     *
+     * @param pasynUser
+     * @param value
+     * @return asynStatus
+     */
+    asynStatus readInt32(asynUser *pasynUser, epicsInt32 *value);
+
     /**
      * @brief Overloaded function of sinqController
      *
@@ -114,7 +127,7 @@ class turboPmacController : public sinqController {
                                            const char *functionName,
                                            int lineNumber);
 
-  private:
+  protected:
     // Set the maximum buffer size. This is an empirical value which must be
     // large enough to avoid overflows for all commands to the device /
     // responses from it.