On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 8:55 AM Steve Litt via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> See this is what I don't understand. In the 7 years I used Turbo Pascal > professionally, I don't remember ever having to allocate or free > memory: I just declared variables. This was one of the big advantages > of Turbo Pascal over C. Well, then you never needed datastructures > 64k (IIRC). Even my addressbook (who didn't write one?) used GetMem/FreeMen or New/Dispose to allocate new records on the heap for that. Even basic Pascal books (yes, books on paper in those years) extensively covered this subject. -- Bart _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
