Alain

Since IDL 8.6.1 a more cleaver way to process octal vs string is implemented ``` IDL> a = "123 ; creates an octal number = 83 IDL> a = "123"...

We do have weakness in HDF5 tests : - some functionalities are not covered by unit tests - current version of `test_hdf5.pro` do need codes provided by h5utils (h5dump +...

missing keyword ELAPSED in SYSTIME()

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This keywoed appeared in IDL 8.5.2 @Jeanne-jw will work next days on that.

force true gnu readline in OSX (12.0.1) with the script

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one time again a conflict between the pseudo readline/editline provided by OSX *without* some symbols (history) and the true complete GNU one (provided by Brew in the script) We do...

cannot compile with -DEIGEN3=off

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``` from /home/gdl/src/basic_op_new.cpp:26: /home/gdl/src/includefirst.hpp: In function ‘int maxNumberOfThreadsForDSFMT()’: /home/gdl/src/includefirst.hpp:96:15: error: ‘min’ is not a member of ‘std’ return std::min (DSFMT_MAX_PARALLEL_SEEDS,omp_get_num_procs()); ```

useful script quick_start_GDL.sh is not working any more

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maybe related to the removal of some link ... for me the link was useful

small issue in CMake file(s) when we do have a global (system) qhull version but we would like to used a local one (e.g. 2020.2) QHULL_INCLUDE_DIR and QHULL_R_LIBRARY are wrong...

cleanup switch in hdf5_fun.cpp

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Hi. Not urgent, not critical ... Could someone (@ogressel ?) takes the time to help Clang on that : ``` [ 16%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/gdl.dir/hdf5_fun.cpp.o /Users/alaingdl/GDL/last-gdl/src/hdf5_fun.cpp:407:13: warning: 16 enumeration...

clarifying details in HELP, /INFO

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It is great the message when starting GDL was upgraded ! thanks. But we mention in it to do : `HELP, /INFO` and we do have to clarify/correct it !...

question about "#include "instantiate_templates.hpp" & duplicate symbol

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On OSX with GCC (gcc-11 & c++-11 provided by Brew) I have a very large number of _duplicate symbol_ and the link fails. ``` [...] duplicate symbol __ZTS5Data_I6SpDIntE in: CMakeFiles/gdl.dir/datatypes.cpp.o...