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From: jcs@crash.cts.com (John Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Modula-2 News/Comments/Info
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Date: 10 Jun 90 18:46:34 GMT
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In article <2045@mindlink.UUCP> a665@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang) writes:
>PS. I do own the Benchmark compiler...it is a good product but I have nits
[1-3 deleted]
>  4) the 64K limit applies to TYPEs, too...so AllocMem'ing is not a solution.
>Except for #1, the chances of #2-4 making it into a compiler upgrade, anytime
>rsn, is close to NIL, IMHO.

  Allocating memory (using AllocMem) *is* the solution. You can declare
your type as ARRAY[0..1] of mydata and don't use range checking (who does?).
The compiler will generate the correct code, all it needs to know is the
size of your data.
  If the compiler does something like:

    add.w  d0,d0
    add.w  d0,d0

  or

    lsl.w #2,d0

to do a *4 index for your array, then 64k is still a limit.


  John


  John