pTAL Reference Manual (H06.03+)

What’s New in This Manual
HP pTAL Reference Manual—523746-005
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EpTAL, pTAL, and TAL Compilers on page 1-2
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Scope on page 2-10
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STRUCTALIGN (MAXALIGN) Attribute on page 9-32
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Example 14-11, Subprocedure Entry-Point Identifiers, on page 14-25
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$TRIGGER on page 15-88
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Table 17-2, Compiler Directives by Name, on page 17-16
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Migrating from TNS/R to TNS/E on page 17-11
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In Appendix A, Syntax Summary, links to the full syntax descriptions
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Appendix C, Differences Between the pTAL and EpTAL Compilers
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Appendix D, RETURN, RETURNSCC, and C/C++ on TNS/E
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Glossary entries (see change bars)
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Example 3-1, Constant Expressions in Data Type Specifications, on page 3-4, was
moved to this manual from the pTAL Conversion Guide
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Constant Expressions on page 5-14 was moved
from Section 2, Language Elements
to Section 5, Expressions
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Declaring System Global Pointers on page 10-20 was moved to Section 10,
Pointers
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System Global Equivalenced Variable Declarations on page 11-22 was moved to
Section 11, Equivalenced Variables
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Because there is no difference between “built-in” and “standard” routines, all of
those routines (along with the explanation of privileged mode, which applies to
them) are now in Section 15, Built-In Routines (previously, these routines were
called “functions,” but not all of them are functions)
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Directive Stacks on page 17-4 was moved
from Section 16, Compiling and Linking pTAL Programs
to Section 17, Compiler Directives (and corrected)