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From: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: valid construction?
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Date: 9 Mar 88 12:29:34 GMT
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In article <8432@reed.UUCP> douglas@reed.UUCP (P Douglas Reeder) writes:
}Richard Ward asked if his program construct was valid.
}It looked fine to me, so I filled out his program as follows.
}It compiled without trouble here in Berkley Pascal under UNIX on our VAX.
}Richard, I think it's your compiler.
[construct deleted, you've all seen it multiple times by now]

Please consider that this is being compiled on an Intel CPU, which means
that the maximum size of any single data object is 64K.  If "maxelts" is
large enough, the size of the record can easily exceed 64K, causing the
compile-time error.
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