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From: reeder@reed.bitnet (Doug Reeder,,,2343817)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ORCA/Pascal dynamic arrays
Keywords: dynamic
Message-ID: <15175@reed.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 90 03:57:21 GMT
References: <368@ankh.ftl.fl.us>
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In article <368@ankh.ftl.fl.us> chin@ankh.ftl.fl.us (Albert Chin) writes:
>Is it possible to do the following in Pascal, like in C:
>char *pointer;
>..
>pointer=malloc(4000*sizeof(char)); /* dynamically allocate pointer[4000] */

   Pascal considers pointer arithmetic to be a source of program anarchy, so
it is not allowed.  There are no Pascal statements that correspond to
EXACTLY to the above C code.  If you want a data structure of fixed size, an
array will do nicely.  If the data structure size is determined after
compile-time, you must build a linked list, unless you're using an ISO 
level 1 compliant compiler with conformant arrays.

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