RSC/MP 7.2 Programming Manual

HP NonStop Remote Server Call (RSC/MP) Programming Manual—522360-004

B-1

Language Conversion for RSC/MP

Function Calls

All the function calls documented in this manual use the C language syntax. This

appendix shows how to translate these function calls into other languages.

Data Type Equivalents

Table B-1 lists the COBOL, Pascal, and Visual Basic equivalents for the C data types.

Numeric values passed to RSC/MP functions must be declared as COMP-5 to convert

the byte order to the Intel standard.

Table B-1. Data Types in Other Languages

C COBOL Pascal

Visual

Basic

Description

CHAR PIC X ( X ) CHAR STRING Character data.

SHORT PIC S9 ( 4 ) COMP INTEGER

(default)

INTEGER Two-byte signed

numeric.

USHORT PIC 9 ( 4 ) COMP N.A. N.A. Two-byte unsigned

numeric.

LONG PIC S9 ( 8 ) COMP INTEGER4 LONG Four-byte signed

numeric.

ULONG

PIC 9 ( 8 ) COMP N.A. N.A. Four-byte unsigned

numeric.

VOID N.A. N.A. N.A. No value. For example,

a VOID return data type

from a function call

means that there is no

return value.

1. Unsigned long words are not available in Visual Basic or Pascal. A signed integer can be substituted, but do

not exceed the range.

2. RSC/MP provides a Visual Basic declaration file, RSC.BAS, that contains the constant, type, and function

declarations supplied in RSC.H.