Bart via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:59:10 +0100 >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).
I didn't. >Even my addressbook (who didn't write one?) used GetMem/FreeMen or >New/Dispose to allocate new records on the heap for that. You're right. I never implemented a linked list or binary tree with Turbo Pascal, or anything that used an arbitrary number of "things". I always used C, Python or Perl for that kind of thing. So you're right and I was wrong, Getmem/Freemem are very important. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
