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| Problems with IDL call_external to C shared object [message #22000] |
Thu, 12 October 2000 00:00 |
Streun Andreas
Messages: 4
Registered: October 2000
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Hello -
who is experienced in running IDL with C shared objects?
I'm trying to make an IDL GUI for a rather complex C batch
program. The effects are rather strange: sometimes it works
perfectly, but mostly it doesn't: suddenly on the C-side strange
and wrong number appear in calculations leading to crashes. It seems
like something is initialized or dereferenced in a wrong way.
However the behaviour is determinsitic: a small change in the IDL
program like declaring a new variable anywhere causes the crash,
after undoing the change it works well again. Maybe a memory conflict ?
The C-program alone in batch mode runs reliably. It does a lot of
mallocs but never frees any memory (because it is batch).
IDL communicates via the CALL_EXTERNAL function.
I'm rather sure that I have checked the variables on both sides of the
fence are really of same type. (However I'm a poor C-programmer...)
I'm using IDL 5.3 on a Linux system and the GNU C-compiler.
Now the questions:
- Is it possible that IDL overwrites or frees memory allocated by the C
shared object ? Is there a general way to prevent it from doing so ?
- What is the effect of the /CDECL keyword to CALL_EXTERNAL ?
I tried with and without but no success.
- Is it possible that the C program "forgets" something between
the IDL CALL_EXTERNALs ?
(important:)
- Is there an opinion whether this problem can be solved in principle
and within finite time ?!
(has nothing to do with the problem but I would like to know:)
- How can I return an array via CALL_EXTERNAL or have I always
to loop over calls returning scalars ? The EZCA library (channel
access to EPICS control system) manages to return arrays, but I
couldn't figure out how.
Thanks for any help.
Andreas
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Dr. Andreas Streun
Paul Scherrer Institute, SLS-BD, WSLA/106
CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Tel/Fax: ++41 (56) 310 3688/4528
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