[GRASS-user] Error in r.in.gdal: CPLCalloc(): Out of memory allocating for "EHdr/ESRI .hdr Labelled" driver

[Frank Warmerdam]

Patton, Eric wrote:
> I'm trying to import a pile of Arc floating point binary rasters (.flt and .hdr extensions) with r.in.gdal:
> 
> 
> $ r.in.gdal input=45_18_N_66_06_W_BACKSCATTER.flt output=45_18_N_66_06_W -oe
> WARNING: Over-riding projection check.
> ERROR 2: CPLCalloc(): Out of memory allocating -329 bytes.
> 
> Aborted (core dumped)
...
> I'm using a fresh install of GDAL 1.4.1, along with a fresh 6.3 cvs update from today. I see that at 1m resolution, the output raster would be 9,827,161 cells in size - pretty big. Is this the source of the CPLCalloc error? 
> 
> Can anything be done as a workaround, i.e., using gdal tools to reduce the resolution of the output raster on the fly? I have 350 of these rasters to import.

Eric,

This isn't a big raster, so that's not the problem.  Can you try
"gdalinfo -mm" on the same file?  Negative allocation errors normally
mean a bug somewhere in the driver code.  If gdalinfo -mm also has
a similar error, then file a bug against GDAL and ensure you include
the .flt header (the data itself should not be needed).

Best regards,
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