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From: jerry@gumby.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: need dynamic array on heap
Message-ID: <4816@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 16 Apr 91 17:17:23 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.234843.9031@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jerry@altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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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 
>an array of byte.  I could just declare it as some type like 
>'array[1..64000] of byte', but I want to use GetMem so that the array will
>really be dynamic (I don't want to use 64K each time).
>
>  Buff[1]^ := 2;
>      ^ Invalid qualifier
>
>so does anyone know, is this sort of thing possible?  Can you do this
>easily in C?


This is very easy in C:

main()

{

	char	*buff;


	buff = (char *)malloc(1000);

	buff[0] = 2;

}



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