very disturbing behavior in compiler

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Hi I am observing something that I don't think should happen.

Please see my attached file, and try compiling it on your machine.

Yes, there should be an error in the second call to 'Duplicate'.

However, no error is generated. I have observed this on two different computers.

Does anyone else see this error?

Thanks,

Jeff Compiler_error.ipf (317 bytes)
A couple of observations:

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#pragma rtGlobals=3     // Use modern global access method and strict wave access.
 
Function TestCompile(ctrlName) : ButtonControl
    String ctrlName
    
    Make/O junk
    
    Variable j=7 // show what happens when you run this code
    
    if (j==7)
        String JunkStr="HeresJunk_"
        String JunkStr2="HeresJunk2_"
        Duplicate/O junk $JunkStr
        Duplicate/O $JunkStr2  // SHOULD NOT COMPILE ?
 
    endif   
 
End


It is true that the compiler accepts only one arg to Duplicate when two are needed.

Running the code does give a run-time error "expected wave name" on that line.

The compiler author could explain why, but I suspect it is because of the complexities of using $stringExpression.

--Jim Prouty
Software Engineer, WaveMetrics, Inc.

September 24, 2015 at 04:27 pm - Permalink

OK Thanks. However, for me this issue is somewhat more concerning, since a similar line of erroneous logic was present in the heart of a code that saves my experimental data (I did not write the code, but I have been trying to understand it). Two faulty lines such as this were immediately adjacent to the line that saves my data to file. No run time error was ever reported on this machine.

September 24, 2015 at 04:31 pm - Permalink