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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Records and their types.
Date: 1999/09/22
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In article <7s93ih$4vj$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:

> > required size is. (Like I said, the DEC compiler used to
> accept this and work
> > fine with it while others complained.)
>
> It will work fine, but in this case, there is no need to provide
> a default. DEC always allocated the maximum value for
> unconstrained variant records. Perhaps it did not give a
> warning, but it should have :-)

It was a long time ago, but the way I remember it the DEC compiler would
do as Robert says, but it would also try to run with it. That lead to
rather inefficent code, but hey, you're the programmer. If you want the
ability to expand your array field to 2*31 elements, that's what you
get.


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