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Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure [message #45804]

Sat, 15 October 2005 04:07

Armando Riccardi
Messages: 1
Registered: October 2005

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andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au wrote:
> Robert Moss wrote:
>
>> Reimar Bauer wrote:
>>
>>> a=create_Struct('test',1)
>>> a=0
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> dummy=temporary(a)
>>>
>>
>> dummy = temporary( a ) does not free any memory. It simply renames the
>> variable that contains the structure. Setting a to zero certainly does
>> work.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Robert Moss, PhD
>
>
> But, if you place dummy=temporary(a) in a procedure, it does free up
> memory - see DF's tip at
> http://www.dfanning.com/tips/variable_undefine.html
>
> Andrew
>

The correct command is:
dummy=size(temporary(a))
that deallocate memory.

Armando

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		Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure By: Armando Riccardi on Sat, 15 October 2005 04:07
		Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure By: Andrew Cool on Sat, 15 October 2005 00:15
		Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure By: Robert Moss on Fri, 14 October 2005 21:46
		Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure By: peter.albert@gmx.de on Fri, 14 October 2005 00:34
		Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure By: R.Bauer on Fri, 14 October 2005 00:06

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