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_EXTRA inheritance crashing IDL [message #30208]

Wed, 10 April 2002 14:25

Rob.Preece
Messages: 8
Registered: December 1999

Junior Member

OK, Rob de-lurking here.

Has anyone seen a behavior where IDL 5.5 crashes on a call to a subroutine
with an added _EXTRA keyword? I have found the same behavior on several
different machines, Linux and Mac, which does not exist under 5.4. Here
goes a test case:

PRO test1, _REF_EXTRA = extra

testStuff = ['TITLE','XTITLE','YTITLE']

test2, INDGEN (10), _EXTRA = [testStuff, 'XRANGE']

END

PRO test2, plotStuff, _EXTRA = extra

PLOT, plotStuff, plotStuff, _EXTRA = extra

END

Compile and execute :

IDL> test1, XRANGE = [-1, 10]

On 5.4, I get a nice plot, with my new XRANGE. On 5.5, I get a *totally
irrelevant* error message:

% File expression not allowed in this context: <no name>

The error message varies, depending on when in my code I call a subroutine
using the _EXTRA keyword. Once, I hard crashed IDL on my Mac iBook. I
would very much appreciate any suggestions / tips, since this is candidate
release code, and I have to tell my users if they can or must not use IDL
5.5!

Thanks!

- Rob

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		_EXTRA inheritance crashing IDL By: Rob.Preece on Wed, 10 April 2002 14:25
		Re: _EXTRA inheritance crashing IDL By: R.Bauer on Sun, 14 April 2002 12:48
		Re: _EXTRA inheritance crashing IDL By: R.Bauer on Sun, 14 April 2002 12:43
		Re: _EXTRA inheritance crashing IDL By: Rob.Preece on Fri, 12 April 2002 08:20
		Re: _EXTRA inheritance crashing IDL By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 11 April 2002 14:51
		Re: _EXTRA inheritance crashing IDL By: David Fanning on Thu, 11 April 2002 13:28

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