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douglas brenner wrote on Jan 14, 2009

What results in this message: Memory has been corrupted
Killing IRAF task crosscor?

Thanks

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jan 14, 2009

Generically it just means there was a memory corruption in the task, specifically it means that when a pointer is freed garbage was found. This can be caused by the data (e.g. really large images) or is some other coding error.

Since this is an STSDAS task you may want to contact their helpdesk (help@stsci.edu) to see if it is familiar. Most likely they'll need to know at least what platform you are using, making available data and the parameters used will help them reproduce the problem. IRAF and STSDAS version you use will also be needed.

-Mike

Last post on Jan 14, 2009