Re: Array has a corrupted descriptor

[Reimar Bauer <r.bauer(at)fz-juelich.de>]

William Thompson wrote:
> 
> Reimar Bauer <r.bauer@fz-juelich.de> writes:
> 
> >Hi,
> 
> >I got an error sometimes in one of my routines only on AIX.
> 
> >-- IDL> help,!version,/str
> >** Structure !VERSION, 7 tags, length=44:
> >   ARCH            STRING    'ibmr2'
> >   OS              STRING    'AIX'
> >   OS_FAMILY       STRING    'unix'
> >   RELEASE         STRING    '5.4.1'
> >   BUILD_DATE      STRING    'Jan 16 2001'
> >   MEMORY_BITS     INT             32
> >   FILE_OFFSET_BITS
> >                   INT       =       32
> 
> >The same routine works on linux and windows.
> 
> >The error text is:
> >% Array has a corrupted descriptor: VAR
> 
> >the calling sequence is something like this
> 
> >var=function(x)
> 
> >First I like to know what's this error is meaning.
> 
> >It seems to me that's the RETURN statement won't work.
> 
> >The result value of my function is good.
> 
> >If it reachs the calling level of the function I got
> >this error.
> 
> I suspect that the function is calling external code via something like
> CALL_EXTERNAL or LINKIMAGE.  I've gotten error messages like that in the past
> when mixing IDL with external code.

In some of the functions is EXECUTE used (it's not easy to change them
to
call_function at them moement). CALL_EXTERNAL or LINKIMAGE isn't used.
Do you believe EXECUTE will be give this error too ?

> 
> The descriptor is the thing which describes a variable in IDL.  It contains the
> datatype, array dimensions, and the physical location of the data in memory.
> When you pass around variables in IDL, you're really passing around the
> descriptors.
> 
> William Thompson

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Reimar Bauer 

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