In EPICS 3.14.12, it was possible to use hex numbers in hardware links of type VME_IO and others like "#C0 S0x8b". In EPICS 7 this does not work any longer because the string is parsed with %d instead of %i. As many of our existing IOCs use hex numbers here, this makes transition to EPICS 7 unnecessary hard.
In EPICS 3.14.12, it was possible to use hex numbers in hardware links of type VME_IO and others like "#C0 S0x8b". In EPICS 7 this does not work any longer because the string is parsed with %d instead of %i. As many of our existing IOCs use hex numbers here, this makes transition to EPICS 7 unnecessary hard.