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Re: Error: Array has a corrupted descriptor [message #51551 is a reply to message #51550]

Tue, 28 November 2006 09:20

David Fanning
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Karl Schultz writes:

> The corrupted array descriptor error message is almost always caused by a
> programming error in an IDL system routine or user-written DLM function.
> You generally cannot cause this error by just moving array elements
> around since IDL performs bounds checking. This code is also pretty mature
> and we would have fixed any problems by now. Likewise, a storage
> fragmentation issue that leads the inability to allocate a large block of
> storage would result in a message about storage allocation, not a
> corrupted array descriptor.
>
> Unless there is a user-written DLM in the mix, I suspect a bug in
> LABEL_REGION. It would be really good if Gongqin could create a reproduce
> case and get it to ITTVIS Tech Support.

You are probably right. I think I was thinking about the
"temporary variables still checked out" error.

And while they have the hood open, maybe they can fix the
boundary problems with this function. :-)

Cheers,

David
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		Re: Error: Array has a corrupted descriptor By: Karl Schultz on Tue, 28 November 2006 09:49
		Re: Error: Array has a corrupted descriptor By: David Fanning on Tue, 28 November 2006 09:24
		Re: Error: Array has a corrupted descriptor By: David Fanning on Tue, 28 November 2006 09:20
		Re: Error: Array has a corrupted descriptor By: gqshen2008@gmail.com on Tue, 28 November 2006 09:20
		Re: Error: Array has a corrupted descriptor By: gqshen2008@gmail.com on Tue, 28 November 2006 09:16
		Re: Error: Array has a corrupted descriptor By: Karl Schultz on Tue, 28 November 2006 09:12
		Re: Error: Array has a corrupted descriptor By: David Fanning on Tue, 28 November 2006 08:06
		Re: Error: Array has a corrupted descriptor By: gqshen2008@gmail.com on Tue, 28 November 2006 07:49
		Re: Error: Array has a corrupted descriptor By: David Fanning on Mon, 27 November 2006 19:24

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