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Does New as a function return nil or does it still give a runtime error?

If I want to allocate memory, but handle it gracefully if it fails, what are the recommended approaches?

In BP there is a HeapError variable which points to the default error procedure. You can reset it to point to your own error procedure and handle the error however you like. I don't know if this works with other Pascal compilers. Frank Rubin