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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Array sizes in Pascal
Keywords: huge arrays
Message-ID: <731@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 31 Aug 89 18:43:07 GMT
References: <359@s5.Morgan.COM>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <359@s5.Morgan.COM> amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) writes:
>Limiting arrays to one segment 64K is tragic. I can't write much
>without 'em. Never could stand the old 'fake it by dynamic allocation
>gag', either, Pascal is a language which should facilitate full use
>of the machine resources without recourse to grotesque "C" style
>hocus-pocus. Pascal will never be much use to me until Borland
>or Microsoft take off the handcuffs. And no 'huge' keyword, either,
>please. Pascal is the language where the compiler knows how big
>things are, right?
>Is there an implementation without this failure?

There is a neat way around the 64K limitation of (two-dimensional)
arrays published by Kent Porter in Dr.Dobb's Journal, March 1988. 
This resolves much of the problem, unless, of cource, you are more
intent on format than on what can be achieved. 

Incidentally, the problem does not originate from the Pascal
implementations, but the architecture of the Intel 808x processors. 

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