{ GPC demo program about dynamic arrays (Extended Pascal). Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Author: Frank Heckenbach This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. As a special exception, if you incorporate even large parts of the code of this demo program into another program with substantially different functionality, this does not cause the other program to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why it might be covered by the GNU General Public License. } program DynamicArrayDemo; procedure Test (n: Integer); var { A dynamic array. You don't need pointers and `GetMem' to do this in GPC. } s, c: array [0 .. n - 1] of Real; i: Integer; begin WriteLn ('Initializing the array with `sin'' and `cos'' values.'); for i := 0 to n - 1 do begin s[i] := Sin (2 * Pi * i / n); c[i] := Cos (2 * Pi * i / n) end; WriteLn; WriteLn ('Outputting the values from the array. This could be used for fast'); WriteLn ('lookups when the values are needed often.'); WriteLn; WriteLn ('i' : 10, 'sin (2 pi i / n)' : 20, 'cos (2 pi i / n)' : 20); for i := 0 to n - 1 do WriteLn (i : 10, s[i] : 20 : 15, c[i] : 20 : 15) { At the end of the procedure the memory of the array is automatically freed, just like it is for variables of constant size. } end; var n: Integer; begin repeat Write ('Enter the size for an array: '); ReadLn (n) until n > 0; Test (n) end.