; CLRTEMP ;--------------------------------------------------------------- ;! clears the temporary literal area during a procedure ;# Verb POPS ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; Copyright (C) 1995 ;; Associated Universities, Inc. Washington DC, USA. ;; ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as ;; published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of ;; the License, or (at your option) any later version. ;; ;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public ;; License along with this program; if not, write to the Free ;; Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, ;; MA 02139, USA. ;; ;; Correspondence concerning AIPS should be addressed as follows: ;; Internet email: aipsmail@nrao.edu. ;; Postal address: AIPS Project Office ;; National Radio Astronomy Observatory ;; 520 Edgemont Road ;; Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ;--------------------------------------------------------------- CLRTEMP LLLLLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUUUU CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CLRTEMP: verb to clear up temporary literal space in procedures NO adverbs. ---------------------------------------------------------------- CLRTEMP Type: Verb Use: To clear most of the temporary literal space. The POPS language processor uses a "temporay literal" space in the K array to hold numeric and character constants read in and to hold the intermediate results of character functions such as CHAR and !! (concatenate). In normal modes, the area provided for this is way more than can be used. However, it is possible in procedures that do character manipulations repetitively (i.e., in loops) to use up this space causing a "BLEW CORE" or now a "BLEW TEMP C" error termination. The verb CLRTEMP asserts that all contents of the temporary literal area added since the input line (i.e. procedure) was put into execution are no longer needed and may be cleared. Cautious use of this verb should allow reasonable procedures to run until normal completion. Adverbs: none. ----------------------------------------------------------------