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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
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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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		Re: IDL 8.0 garbage collector issue. By: Bubba on Thu, 21 October 2010 09:39
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		Re: IDL 8.0 garbage collector issue. By: bill.dman on Wed, 20 October 2010 11:41
		Re: IDL 8.0 garbage collector issue. By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 October 2010 09:17
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		Re: IDL 8.0 garbage collector issue. By: wlandsman on Wed, 20 October 2010 07:24

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