[alt.sources.wanted] Pascal record formatter

pricked@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Jenn-Ming Yang) (11/15/89)

I'm looking for a pascal record formatter.
When given a record type, it will print out said record type
and all fields and nested 'sub' records all the way down to the basic
variable types. Its for VMS pascal. but if you have one for 'standard'
pascal, i can probably adapt it. It has to be written in pascal(VMS preferred)
because that is the only compiler i have access to. 


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jmb@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John M Boof) (11/16/89)

What you are asking for is highly compiler-dependent, since there is no 
standard way to get this type info.  You will be dealing with direct memory
analysis, and this is available on VMS/Pascal.  The storage structure of 
the records is documented in the VMS manuals, and the subroutine you are 
looking for sounds useful, but only tedious to write (very tedious, perhaps).

...JMBoof