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Re: Releasing temporary variables created with IDL_MakeTempArray() [message #90832 is a reply to message #90801]

Fri, 24 April 2015 10:06

Matthew Argall
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Registered: October 2011

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> My one remaining question is: Why does approach #1 fail, and why does it take so long
> to fail?

This may be off the wall, but I have always wondered about it. Heap variables have a heap identifier number. By creating and freeing so many heap variables, could you be rolling over the integer heap identifier?

You could use the /GET_HEAP_IDENTIFIER keyword to Ptr_Valid() to check.

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		Releasing temporary variables created with IDL_MakeTempArray() By: dg86 on Wed, 01 April 2015 04:36
		Re: Releasing temporary variables created with IDL_MakeTempArray() By: dg86 on Wed, 01 April 2015 17:38
		Re: Releasing temporary variables created with IDL_MakeTempArray() By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 01 April 2015 18:46
		Re: Releasing temporary variables created with IDL_MakeTempArray() By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 03 April 2015 08:44
		Re: Releasing temporary variables created with IDL_MakeTempArray() By: Jim Pendleton on Fri, 03 April 2015 14:08
		Re: Releasing temporary variables created with IDL_MakeTempArray() By: dg86 on Mon, 06 April 2015 07:52
		Re: Releasing temporary variables created with IDL_MakeTempArray() By: dg86 on Thu, 16 April 2015 09:02
		Re: Releasing temporary variables created with IDL_MakeTempArray() By: Matthew Argall on Fri, 24 April 2015 10:06

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