Re: Problem using sav files.

["Liam Gumley" <Liam.Gumley(at)ssec.wisc.edu>]

Theo Brauers <th.brauers@fz-juelich.de> wrote in message
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> My program is an widget driven i/o interface for FACSIMILE. It
> consists of about 400 functions/routines. When I compile the
> whole thing using resolve_all it works fine in this IDL session.
> However, when I save the thing ( easy.sav ) and restart IDL using
> the easy.sav file it worked fine for a while, then the thing
> crashes IDL totally during operation even when I use the same
> input data. Restarting IDL with sav file: crash. Restarting
> IDL with source compiled: OK. Save and restart: Crash. Rebooting
> and repeating gives the same result. I can also reproduce this
> behaviour on a different machine, with different user profile.
> I had the same behaviour with a previous version of the program
> which crashed in the same way at a different location in the
> program but I cannot reproduce this again :-|

It's probably a long shot, but instead of using RESOLVE_ALL, have you tried
compiling only your procedures and functions, and saving them? In other
words, allowing the built-in routines to compile at runtime?

Cheers,
Liam.
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley