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Re: "Program code area full", even when trying to exit! [message #67186 is a reply to message #67185]

Thu, 09 July 2009 12:56

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

Adam Solomon writes:

> I'm pretty new to IDL, and mostly using it to run routines others have
> written right now.

This is your first major mistake, right here.
You are hanging out with entirely the wrong people! :-)

> I'm running a code which plots data, in a way that
> I'm checking and comparing plots pretty often, so running the plot a
> few times a minute or so. Pretty often (a few times an hour, I'd say)
> I get a "Program code area full" error, and most of the time when it
> happens, I can't even exit IDL! I type in "exit" and get the exact
> same error.
>
> This isn't an issue that other people using this routine have.
>
> Any idea what could be going on?

The "program code area" is a piece of memory that
is set aside to compile IDL procedures and functions
into the "bytecode" that runs faster in IDL. Just
about the only time it is possible to get the code
area full if if you try to run one monster IDL program,
with no procedures or functions, from the IDL command
line. You're not doing *this*, are you? ;-)

I really have no idea how you are doing this. The program
code area is suppose to be dynamically allocated now, so
I haven't seen this error message in probably 10 years or
so. This leads me to think you are either using a very
old version of IDL, or you are doing something extremely
unique. If the latter, I would love to know what it is. :-)

Tell us more about how you are running the IDL code
you are using.

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: "Program code area full", even when trying to exit! By: Adam Solomon on Thu, 09 July 2009 16:43
		Re: "Program code area full", even when trying to exit! By: David Fanning on Thu, 09 July 2009 13:35
		Re: "Program code area full", even when trying to exit! By: Adam Solomon on Thu, 09 July 2009 13:27
		Re: "Program code area full", even when trying to exit! By: David Fanning on Thu, 09 July 2009 13:23
		Re: "Program code area full", even when trying to exit! By: David Fanning on Thu, 09 July 2009 13:20
		Re: "Program code area full", even when trying to exit! By: Adam Solomon on Thu, 09 July 2009 13:07
		Re: "Program code area full", even when trying to exit! By: pgrigis on Thu, 09 July 2009 13:02
		Re: "Program code area full", even when trying to exit! By: David Fanning on Thu, 09 July 2009 12:56

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