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From: steve@cad0.arch.unsw.oz.au (Stephen Peter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: need dynamic array on heap
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Date: 13 Apr 91 12:30:23 GMT
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In article <1991Apr12.234843.9031@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (alan mead) writes:
>I want to put aside a chunk of the heap and then index it by byte like 
.
.
.
>But I get 
>
>  Buff[1]^ := 2;
>      ^ Invalid qualifier
>
>so does anyone know, is this sort of thing possible?  Can you do this
>easily in C?
>

Try addressing the structure as a pointer to an array:

   Buff^[1] := 2;

which should work.

>-alan mead : amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu

Stephen.
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