RE: Separation of Presentation, BL, and I/O Tiers

>From: MWalter@hanoverwire.com
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:55:11 -0400
> ...
>The only thing that gets me is that if you define an array as based
>and dimension it to 32767 elements, if you only allocate enough
>memory for 10 elements the %elem BIF still returns 32767. I wish
>there were a way to determine how many actual elements were
>allocated. Because of the memory allocation blocking, you
>couldn't get exact but you could get close.

Mark, it's not particularly supported by the compiler to allocate
fewer than the declared number of elements or occurrences.  When
you do your allocations, use another variable to keep track of
the current number of elements, and only use %elem to get the
maximum size of the array.

Barbara Morris