pTAL Reference Manual (H06.03+)

What’s New in This Manual
HP pTAL Reference Manual—523746-005
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In Appendix A, Syntax Summary:
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The following declarations were moved from Privileged Procedures (which was
deleted) to Declarations on page A-7:
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System Global on page A-22
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'SG'-Equivalenced Simple Variable on page A-26
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'SG'-Equivalenced Definition Structure on page A-26
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'SG'-Equivalenced Referral Structure on page A-27
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'SG'-Equivalenced Simple Pointer on page A-27
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'SG'-Equivalenced Structure Pointer on page A-28
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What were previously called “standard functions” are now categorized as
“built-in routines”
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HP Transaction Application Language (TAL) information was removed (and not
marked with change bars). For differences between TAL and pTAL, see:
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pTAL Conversion Guide
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pTAL Guidelines for TAL Programmers
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References to “user data segment” and “extended memory” were removed (and
not marked with change bars)
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About This Manual (reorganized)
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Section 1, Introduction to pTAL (reorganized)
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Section 2, Language Elements (reorganized)
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Section 3, Data Representation (reorganized)
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After Data Type Aliases on page 3-4, the manual no longer uses data type aliases
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Table 3-5, Valid Address Conversions, on page 3-9
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Relational Operators on page 5-18 no longer explains file-system errors
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AUTO on page 9-7
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VOLATILE Attribute on page 9-33
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Declaring Template Structures on page 9-35
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Table 10-1, Address Types, on page 10-6
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Initializing Simple Pointers on page 10-14
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Equivalenced Simple Variables on page 11-8
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Equivalenced Simple Pointers on page 11-10