For consideration:
http://www.panix.com/~dgarrett/stuff/names_in_halfiles.patch
The link is to a patch that modifies halfiles (used in sim) to
use loadrt with the names= option instead of count= (or
with no option)
I offer in the following spirit:
1) Many users (especially new users) learn by examples
and are not aware of the names= option
2) using the names= option increases readability of
the hal files by showing some intent with mnemonic
names
3) the changes are transparent with respect to existing
configurations (at least that is the intention)
4) using the names= option facilitates the use of
the the little-known TWOPASS capability:
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/common/starting-emc.html#_twopass
that allows users to add (remove/change) instances of existing
components by adding new loadrt lines. It is often
helpful in making modular hal files with less interdependence.
I realize this may be too big a change for a pending update
but I hope it can be considered for the 2.5.x branch at some point.
I have tried runtests successfully (lucid,rtai):
Runtest: 83 tests run, 83 successful, 0 failed + 0 expected
And I have tried to test the configurations in the sim directory
that use the affected halfiles.
--
Dewey Garrett
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