Change in True/False evaluation?
Richard T.
Tucson, AZ

Oct 31, 2013
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Re: Change in True/False evaluation?

I recently came accross a project that was not used for 18 months and it now currently fails a test that was verified with probes to be working properly. The code was compiled in ATEasy 6 and had been using that runtime engine. Recently we upgraded to ATEasy 8 and the coressponding runtime engine. Knowing this, I recompiled the code for ATEasy 8, however the failure still occurs.

After debugging I found the dll I was interfacing with was populating a boolean value with 0 for FALSE and 1 for TRUE. ATEasy has -1 for TRUE and 0 for FALSE. Since this used to work, I think the ATEasy runtime engine changed the assembly code from a TRUE = Not Zero to a TRUE = -1 test leaving FALSE to be anytime that test fails.

I looked through all of the ATEasy Readme file and I could not find any mention of how a bool value is interpreted for TRUE FALSE.

DrATEasy (Ron Y.)
Mission Viejo, CA

Nov 1, 2013
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Re: Change in True/False evaluation?

Did the bool value was set by a DLL/COM function Var parameter?

Richard T.
Tucson, AZ

Nov 1, 2013
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Re: Change in True/False evaluation?

Yes.

I have a ATEasy driver that then interfaces with another company's DLL where I am using a procedure as defined by:

Procedure (Val DWord, Val Long, Var Bool, Var DWord, Var DWord)

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DrATEasy (Ron Y.)
Mission Viejo, CA

Nov 1, 2013
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Re: Change in True/False evaluation?

That is an issue that was introduced in v8 and will be fixed in the next build 148d.
In v6 Var Bool  was normalized to 0/-1 on the return. This code was omitted by mistake in v8. We will bring it back in 148d.
Thanks for the report.

DoubleM (Moti M.)
Haifa, Select

Jan 28, 2014
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Re: Change in True/False evaluation?

where can I find the 148d build?



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