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From: dataxpress@cup.portal.com (John Philip Eurich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Pascal on Apollo
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Date: 2 Sep 89 20:43:04 GMT
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Reply to Dave Erstad's comment:
> I've used Professional Pascal (from Metaware) on the Daisy platform
> and generally found it to be low quality.  Things like compiler
> crashes with useful messages like "Dynamic array allocation/
> reallocation failed" (The compiler's internal arrays, not one
> of mine).

We have not seen this problem while using PP on the Apollo, VAX/VMS, VAX/Ultrix
,
Sun3 or Sun4.  I believe this message occurs when the compiler has run out of
virtual memory.

John Eurich