Re: Flaw found in histogram on Red Hat Linux

[Vincent Favre-Nicolin <Vincent.Favre-Nicolin(at)cryst.unige.ch>]

grunes@yahoo.com wrote:

> Under some conditions, the histogram function causes IDL
> to crash with a corrupt array descriptor.  I was unable to
> duplicate the error on other platforms with older versions
> of IDL and PV-WAVE.
>
> I would be curious to know if anyone could test this on
> a version of PV-WAVE for Linux, or on recent versions of
> IDL on other platforms.

    On IDL 5.3 (demo), it crashes :
IDL> .run test2
% Compiled module: TEST1.
% Compiled module: $MAIN$.
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% Array has a corrupted descriptor: HIST.
% Execution halted at:  TEST1              11
/home/vincent/idl/perso/test2.pro
%                       $MAIN$             16
/home/vincent/idl/perso/test2.pro

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