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Re: Deallocate Memory for a Structure [message #45812 is a reply to message #45811]

Fri, 14 October 2005 00:06

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Archais wrote:
> I am reading data files in IDL into a structure that was defined by
> ascii_template. Once the data is loaded, the structure is fairly
> large. The data files are organized in days and I have the data
> loading routine in a loop over the number of days in a year so that the
> same structure gets written over with a new day's data for each
> iteration. The program starts out fine, loading the data fairly
> quickly, but the program begins slowing down gradually. I'm pretty
> sure its a memory issue, but I can't seem to find any routine that will
> deallocate the memory used by the structure. Is there any such
> routine, and if so what is it?
>
> Thanks
> Archais
>

a=create_Struct('test',1)
a=0

or

dummy=temporary(a)

If you use pointers

a=ptr_new(create_Struct('test',1))

ptr_free,a

Did you have profiled your routine?

cheers

Reimar

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