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From: rsutc@fornax.UUCP (Rick Sutcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: NEW/DISPOSE ALLOCATE/DEALLOCATE
Summary: a slight omissiom
Message-ID: <182@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 89 19:04:14 GMT
References: <"89-12-11-21:03:38.02*UK4H"@DKAUNI2.BITNET> <460@m2xenix.UUCP>
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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In article <460@m2xenix.UUCP>, randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush) writes:
> 
> As x^ does not exist when the parameter is evaluated, maybe it would be
> better to say
> 
> VAR x : POINTER TO xType;
> ...
>   ALLOCATE ( x, xType )

I think he means ALLOCATE (x, SIZE(xType) )

Rick Sutcliffe