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Memory allocation problem: [message #11016]

Fri, 20 February 1998 00:00

Inigo Garcia
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Registered: June 1997

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I think this is a bug in IDL, probably someone else has noticed it before:
If I create a huge array, and then delete it, the allocated memory still remains
!!! Look a clear example:

IDL> a=fltarr(10000,50000)
IDL> a=0

The array is not there any more, so the allocated memory should be freed,
shouldn't it ? But it is not. And I don't like the idea of exiting IDL everytime I
decide to use some big temporary arrays, I find it ridiculous. If these 2 lines
are within a routine, the problem is exctly the same.

I am in a Sun UltraSparc, with Solaris and IDL 5.0.2.

Please, any solutions will be appreciated.

I~nigo.
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		Memory allocation problem: By: Inigo Garcia on Fri, 20 February 1998 00:00
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