Fix segmentation fault when trying to save invalid long strings #60
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This can occur if you have something like the following:
The
VAL$
field will cause a segmentation fault when it tries to save it to disk. The reason this seems to happen is that on one hand,VAL$
is regarded by autosave as a valid field (it is a field, but with a$
at the end). On the other hand, when connecting a monitor, the connection fails as theVAL
field is not of the correcct type as defined indbChannelCreate
from EPICS base.This means that autosave will try to save the date from an unconnected array, with uninitialised pArray, causing a segmentation fault.
Fixes #59