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From: winfave@dutrun.UUCP (Alexander Verbraeck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: ISO compatible Pascal sought
Message-ID: <870@dutrun.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 89 10:55:15 GMT
References: <6464@ux.cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: winfave@dutrun.UUCP (A.Verbraeck)
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In article <6464@ux.cs.man.ac.uk> andrew@.uucp (441F0650.A000F5B8) writes:
> I am trying to port a large program in Pascal to an IBM PC.  ( The program
>has already been ported successfully to apollos, suns and vaxen.)  At the 
>moment I am using Turbo Pascal version 4 and have run into a major problem: 
>the array size is limited to an upper bound of 256 where as the program uses
>arrays upto 1000. For reasons of compatability with the versions of the program
>on other machines, I am trying to keep the Pascal as "standard" as possible.
>
What do you mean with a maximum array size of 256? A statement like

type
  largearray = array[1..10000] of integer;

is no problem at all in  Turbo Pascal as far as I know. 

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