gancgrid error: unable to allocate memory for grtmp grid storage

[Petroski, Tom (MLCI)]

GrADS 2.0 Users,

I get the following error message when using GrADS 2.0.a2, but not with versions 2.0.a1 or 2.0.a0.

“gancgrid error: unable to allocate memory for grtmp grid storage”

I am using the binary files from the ftp site compiled for Linux, but I found these statements in gaio.c lines 2426 – 2435.

/* size of the grid to be read */
  grsize = xlen * ylen * zlen * tlen * elen;

  /* allocate memory for temporary grids to hold data

     before being placed properly in requested block */

  grtmp = (gadouble *)galloc(grsize * sizeof(gadouble),"grtmp");

  if (grtmp==NULL) {
    gaprnt (0,"gancgrid error: unable to allocate memory for grtmp grid storage \n");
    return (1);
  }

I can successfully open my user created netcdf file,

ga-> q file 2

File 2 : Climatology: 6-hourly means 1971-2000

  Descriptor: climo_71-00.nc

  Binary: climo_71-00.nc

  Type = Gridded

  Xsize = 144  Ysize = 73  Zsize = 1  Tsize = 1464  Esize = 1

  Number of Variables = 1

    hgt_500_clim 0 -103 HGT_500_CLIM

But when I attempt “define clim = hgt_500_clim.2’” under 2.0.a2, I get the earlier mentioned error message.

Is this a bug?

Thank You,

Tom Petroski
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