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From: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Turbo Dispose() can fail (was: Strange... The Turbo Pascal NEW command)
Message-ID: <1105@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 7 Aug 89 05:30:18 GMT
References: <3.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> <1087@tukki.jyu.fi> <5.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Reply-To: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <5.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) writes:
..
>  My manuals still haven't been moved over (or if they have, they're
>buried at the bottom of one box or another): am I correct in remembering
>that there's no exception procedure for Dispose() failures?

Yes, at least as far as I know and can find in the 5.0 manual: 

"The heap error function gets called whenever a call to New or Getmem
cannot complete the request."  

"Trying to dispose of a pointer when the free list is full causes a
runtime error."

Too bad.  I'm afraid the only reliable way out is writing your own
memory allocation routines.
-- 
Tapani Tarvainen    (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)