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Subject: More on Turbo Pascal
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Date: Sat, 10-Dec-83 14:43:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 10 14:43:00 1983
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1.  I was asked if turbo can generate more than 64k of code or data
area.  I know it can generate more than 64k of data, but as far as I
can tell it will do this only dynamically using pointer variables --
not much of a problem .

No single object can be bigger than 64k, e.g.

  var i : array[32000] of integer ;   is okay
  var i : array[40000] of integer ;   fails.

The documentation seems to imply that it can generate more than 64k of
code.  I havn't gotten near there -- no decent person would.

2.  It's easy to read command line variables -- took me five minutes
with the ibm documentation to see how use mem[Cseg:$80] to get at the
command line data.

regards
chuck