An idle thought just crossed my mind.
If it's deemed proper to comment on the PB internal design, would
it be possible to reveal that the memory allocation for string space
always falls out on four byte boundaries or not?
In other words, I have a variable length string for say "Moo", which
is three bytes. Irrespective of whether we allocate minumum, a given
maximum, temporary or otherwise, for string space use, does the actual
use of memory space for all the string handling work always fall out
on four byte boundaries?
What about fixed length strings, as in those we might use inside of
UDT's? Life in my world has calmed down a lot as to things that go
bump by making sure that all the UDT's fall out on 4 byte boundaries!
But hocus pocus being what it is, some of this superstition would be
seem made useless, if, for example, defining COW AS STRING * 3, acutally
produces one silent byte when COW goes "Moo"! That especially next
to the fence when the cow that is 'mooing' might want to jump into the
next EMS 16K or whatever size fence the MB bull fences off in search of
some more enjoyable expanded or extended pasture to "Moo" in!

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Mike Luther
[email protected]
If it's deemed proper to comment on the PB internal design, would
it be possible to reveal that the memory allocation for string space
always falls out on four byte boundaries or not?
In other words, I have a variable length string for say "Moo", which
is three bytes. Irrespective of whether we allocate minumum, a given
maximum, temporary or otherwise, for string space use, does the actual
use of memory space for all the string handling work always fall out
on four byte boundaries?
What about fixed length strings, as in those we might use inside of
UDT's? Life in my world has calmed down a lot as to things that go
bump by making sure that all the UDT's fall out on 4 byte boundaries!
But hocus pocus being what it is, some of this superstition would be
seem made useless, if, for example, defining COW AS STRING * 3, acutally
produces one silent byte when COW goes "Moo"! That especially next
to the fence when the cow that is 'mooing' might want to jump into the
next EMS 16K or whatever size fence the MB bull fences off in search of
some more enjoyable expanded or extended pasture to "Moo" in!

------------------
Mike Luther
[email protected]
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