Re: Accessing "main" level variables

[Craig Markwardt <craigmnet(at)cow.physics.wisc.edu>]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@astro.uva.nl> writes:

> >>>>> "CM" == Craig Markwardt <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> writes:
> 
> CM> Incidentally, there is an internal IDL routine which *can* do
> CM> this.  Unfortunately you need to write a DLM to access it.
> 
> Is this documented somewhere?

Yes, it's in the *External Development Guide*, in the chapter called
Variables.  The function name is IDL_GetVarAddr(), but as I said this
is an internal C function that would need to be accessed by a DLM.

Craig

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