[net.micro.pc] More on Turbo Pascal

CLJ%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (12/10/83)

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