Re: IDL 8.0 garbage collector issue. [message #72973] |
Thu, 21 October 2010 09:39 |
Bubba
Messages: 3 Registered: October 2010
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On Oct 21, 11:19 am, Chris Torrence <gorth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 12:41 pm, Bill Dieckmann <bill.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 20, 8:47 am, Bubba <boc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Am I missing something? Is this expected behavior?
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>> I reported this to ITTvis a couple of months ago. The support engineer
>> told me
>> it will be fixed in the next upcoming IDL update.
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> It is indeed fixed in the upcoming 8.0.1 patch (should be just a few
> weeks).
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> -Chris
> ITTVIS
Awesome, I will axiously await the new release then:) Thanks for all
the replies.
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Re: IDL 8.0 garbage collector issue. [message #72976 is a reply to message #72973] |
Thu, 21 October 2010 08:19  |
chris_torrence@NOSPAM
Messages: 528 Registered: March 2007
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On Oct 20, 12:41 pm, Bill Dieckmann <bill.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 8:47 am, Bubba <boc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Am I missing something? Is this expected behavior?
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> I reported this to ITTvis a couple of months ago. The support engineer
> told me
> it will be fixed in the next upcoming IDL update.
It is indeed fixed in the upcoming 8.0.1 patch (should be just a few
weeks).
-Chris
ITTVIS
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Re: IDL 8.0 garbage collector issue. [message #72988 is a reply to message #72976] |
Wed, 20 October 2010 11:41  |
bill.dman
Messages: 17 Registered: June 2007
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On Oct 20, 8:47 am, Bubba <boc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Am I missing something? Is this expected behavior?
I reported this to ITTvis a couple of months ago. The support engineer
told me
it will be fixed in the next upcoming IDL update.
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Re: IDL 8.0 garbage collector issue. [message #72991 is a reply to message #72988] |
Wed, 20 October 2010 09:17  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724 Registered: August 2001
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Paulo Penteado writes:
> If you are missing something, then so am I. To me it looks like a bug.
Isn't it interesting how difficult it is to tell if
something is a bug or not? It is particularly difficult
for me in IDL 8. I had built up some confidence in IDL
over the years, so I was getting better at this. Now
my confidence is back to about where it was when I was
just starting out, all those many years ago. ;-)
Cheers,
David
P.S. Let's just say Coyote's take on this is that it's
like being endlessly young and naive. The whole world
our oyster again!
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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Re: IDL 8.0 garbage collector issue. [message #72992 is a reply to message #72991] |
Wed, 20 October 2010 08:58  |
penteado
Messages: 866 Registered: February 2018
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On Oct 20, 10:47 am, Bubba <boc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am I missing something? Is this expected behavior? It seems to me
> that you should be able to do this. It would just be extra unneeded
> code to store the return into a variable just to be able to access
> it. I use code like this a lot and I can't afford to update it
> everywhere.
If you are missing something, then so am I. To me it looks like a bug.
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Re: IDL 8.0 garbage collector issue. [message #72993 is a reply to message #72992] |
Wed, 20 October 2010 07:24  |
wlandsman
Messages: 743 Registered: June 2000
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On Oct 20, 8:47 am, Bubba <boc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am I missing something? Is this expected behavior? It seems to me
> that you should be able to do this. It would just be extra unneeded
> code to store the return into a variable just to be able to access
> it. I use code like this a lot and I can't afford to update it
> everywhere.
I agree that this looks like a bug in the IDL 8.0 garbage
collection. It works correctly in IDL 7.1.
One "fix" is to turn off garbage collection (so your code works the
same as in IDL 7.1) by adding
!null = heap_refcount(/disable)
to your startup file. --Wayne
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