pTAL Guidelines for TAL Programmers

What’s New in This Manual

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New

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Routines marked with change bars in Table 3-1, Address-Conversion Routines, on

page 3-2

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Information about the EpTAL compiler, throughout this manual, but especially

important in:

Compiling pTAL Programs on page 1-2

OVERFLOW_TRAPS Directive on page 3-21

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Glossary items:

EPIC

EpTAL compiler

explicitly parallel instruction set computing (EPIC)

release version update (RVU)

RVU

Changed

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Syntax diagrams, from bracket-and-brace style to railroad-track style (only those

whose syntax was changed or corrected have change bars)

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Location of “TAL Nomenclature” definitions, from Notation Conventions on page xii

to Glossary (only definitions whose syntax was changed or corrected have change

bars)

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Title of Section 3, from “New Features” to Differences Between TAL and pTAL

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Syntax of the DO_PTAL Directive on page 3-5

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Terms “TAL standard routines” and “pTAL built-in routines,” from “functions” to

“routines” (not all of these routines are functions)

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Glossary items:

accelerate

accelerated mode

accelerated object code

accelerated object file

Accelerator

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Miscellaneous minor items (identified by change bars)