[fpc-pascal] Error: Identifier not found "Heap Error"

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 15/10/16 20:00, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> issues, but I still get the following error:
>>
>> OPTIQAP.PAS(18,21) Error: Identifier not found "HeapError"
>> OPTIQAP.PAS(19,6) Error: Identifier not found "HeapError"

> This is possibly code intended for Turbo Pascal. The HeapError
> identifier does not exist in Free Pascal. At least, I have not found any.
>
> In some old Free Vision code, I found a reference to HeapError which seems
> to be a callback function variable, but it is not active for Free
> Pascal. I suggest you simply remove any lines that contain HeapError.

I've got a 5.0 manual to hand [blows dust off, coughs]. The function 
takes size (bytes?) as parameter, returns 0 by default indicating that a 
runtime error should be raised, but may alternatively return 1 (New or 
GetMem should return Nil) or 2 (New or GetMem should retry).

Presumably it's in there to allow normal memory management to be 
augmented with application-specific garbage collection, I've seen this 
in the Pascal source for a Prolog system (not the Spivey one).

Perhaps Michael et al. would confirm this, but I'd expect FPC to use the 
OS's memory management including virtual memory, so within limits I'd 
not expect to see memory exhaustion in finite time. The residual use of 
this function is to return Nil rather than forcing a run-time error if 
there is an allocation problem.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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