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In article <5122672@janhh.hanse.de> jan@janhh.hanse.de (Jan Willamowius) writes:
> It looks like Wirth is using different ways to allocate memory
> in different versions of his books. Sometimes he uses
> 'Allocate(Var,SIZE(Type)' and sometimes 'NEW(Var)'.
> 
> I like the second way better, but my compiler only supports Allocate.
> So, is there a way to write a NEW (and DISPOSE, of course) ?>

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> The problem is that p 'looses' its type in the conversion to ADDRESS and
> only a WORD is Allocated (ADDRESS is POINTER TO WORD).


  I don't think that you will be able to do it. NEW and DISPOSE are normally
built in functions, that require ALLOCATE and DEALLOCATE to be IMPORTed. In
my experience the compiler normally translates calls to NEW and DISPOSE into
appropriate calls to ALLOCATE and DEALLOCATE. So, without this 'inside
information' available to the compiler, I don't think that a library function
will be able to do it. 

Graham Murray				email gmurray@ibmpcug.co.uk
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