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From: soper@encore.UUCP (Pete Soper,Cary NC,9194813730,9193624635)
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Subject: Re: How to write NEW?
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Date: 22 Apr 91 01:22:14 GMT
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From article <5122672@janhh.hanse.de>, by jan@janhh.hanse.de (Jan Willamowius):
[description of "new" implementation omitted]
> The problem is that p 'looses' its type in the conversion to ADDRESS and
> only a WORD is Allocated (ADDRESS is POINTER TO WORD).
> 
> Any ideas ?

If you have the source to your compiler, yes, otherwise no. The problem is
that at the point "new" is invoked, the compiler needs to pass the size of
the item to be allocated as a hidden parameter. So if you can modify your
compiler you can arrange for new to be an intrinsic and pass the size along.
Otherwise you are out of Shlitz. Without changing the compiler you *must*
add a second parameter to new to pass the item size.
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