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From: boerner@ut-emx.uucp (Brendan B. Boerner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: (R)Re: Quick Directories/Better Sorts
Message-ID: <40147@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 25 Nov 90 22:59:12 GMT
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Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Microcomputer Technologies
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In article <40124@ut-emx.uucp> boerner@ut-emx.uucp (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
>In article <25082@adm.brl.mil> CDCKAB%EMUVM1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu ( Karl Brendel) writes:
>[...]
>>You subsequently proposed a solution which _will_ work: the array of
>>pointers (or pointer to an array of pointers).
>[...]
>
>I disagree with Karl on the first point:  the SizeOf a variable of
>type ^array[1..5000] of index will be 4 (it's a pointer).  Using
>New(IndexPtrVar) will result in 85000 bytes being allocated on the
>heap.
>[...]

Duncan Murdoch sent me mail pointing out the error of my ways.
Karl is correct in saying that ^Array[1..5000] of index will not
compile.  My apologies to Karl for this.

Brendan
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