Use dynamic memory allocation for coordinate stoage?

[karlmsmith]

Reported by @AnsleyManke on 20 Jan 2005 20:53 UTC
The array line_mem stores irregularly-spaced coordinates for all lines, plus
their cell boundaries. (See bug 767). Does it make sense to use dynamic memory
allocation for this? The problem is that when we find we need more coordinate
storage, we need to keep existing coordinate data that may already have been
loaded. This is unlike pplus dynamic memory, where we allocate memory before
loading data and sending it to pplus, so any existing data can be wiped out by a
free command.

Migrated-From: http://dunkel.pmel.noaa.gov/trac/ferret/ticket/1158

[karlmsmith]

Comment by @AnsleyManke on 17 Feb 2005 18:11 UTC
No, this would require wiping out existing coordinates whenever we wanted to
allocate more storage...