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From: defaria@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Structure TOO large...help please
Message-ID: <45670009@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 17:48:00 GMT
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>/ hpcupt3:comp.lang.pascal / brpleshek@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu / 11:56 am  Apr 10, 1991 /
>I'm creating a program that keeps track of a diver's logbook.  Now My problem
>is that I have so much declared that TP6.0 gives me a structure too large
>error(#22 Used more than 65520 bytes).  Now I have a 386 w/ 3 Megs of RAM and I
>want to use this space to make the structure larger.  Will the Memory
>Allocation Size Command help.  This is on page 416 of the User's Ref book. 
>Will this allow me to use more memory???
>
>If not How can I break a Program into a main and a few subprograms and link
>them together.  I've never used TP before.  I've programmed in P on a VAX where
>memory and structure sizes were basicily virtuall.
>
>Any and all help will be appreciated.

What in God's name do you have in a "diver's logbook" that is so damn huge?
Ever hear of the concept of a "file"?  Write some of the stuff to disk once
in a while - Geeze?  :-) :-).

Seriously though, perhaps use  of the {$M}  compiler directive  might help.
It allows you to specify stacks sizes for data segment and heap area.

Another thing by be to use more of the heap  area.  I think  you can have a
large heap but the data stack is a  bit more limited  (Don't have my manual
handy).