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Re: Proper pointer cleanup question [message #34648 is a reply to message #34634]

Tue, 08 April 2003 18:49

Mark Hadfield
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"Paul van Delst" <paul.vandelst@noaa.gov> wrote in message
news:3E93649D.C9FBEBA0@noaa.gov...
> JD Smith wrote:
>> Another option is:
>>
>> heap_free,a
>>
>> which will accomplish the same as #2 (avoiding a memory leak), and is
>> only slightly slower. When you're feeling truly lazy, it's quite a
>> blessing. You have no flexibility to pick and choose what to parts of
>> a data structure to free, but often this isn't an issue.
>
> Wha..? Is that another one of those undocumented IDL routines? It works on
my current
> version, but bugger me if I can find it documented anywhere.

It's in the 5.6 documentation, which says it's been in the language since
5.3.

But I'd never heard of it either.

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Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: David Fanning on Thu, 10 April 2003 06:52
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: JD Smith on Wed, 09 April 2003 16:29
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 08 April 2003 18:49
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 08 April 2003 17:09
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: JD Smith on Tue, 08 April 2003 16:45
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: tam on Tue, 08 April 2003 13:29
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: David Fanning on Tue, 08 April 2003 12:11
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: tam on Tue, 08 April 2003 11:33
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 08 April 2003 11:10
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: David Fanning on Tue, 08 April 2003 11:03
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: MKatz843 on Tue, 08 April 2003 10:26
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 07 April 2003 16:27
		Re: Proper pointer cleanup question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 07 April 2003 16:23

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