TAL Programmer's Guide

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Appendix B Managing Addressing
Extended Pointer Format B-1
Accessing the Upper 32K-Word Area B-2
Storing Addresses in Simple Pointers B-2
Storing Addresses in Structure Pointers B-4
Managing Data Allocation in Upper 32K-Word Area B-5
Managing Large Blocks of Memory B-7
Indexing the Upper 32K-Word Boundary B-8
Accessing the User Code Segment B-9
Initializing Simple Pointers B-9
Assigning Addresses to Simple Pointers B-9
Using Extended Data Segments B-10
Using the Automatic Extended Segment B-10
Using Explicit Extended Segments B-10
C-Series Extended Segment Examples B-19
Appendix C Improving Performance
General Guidelines C-1
Addressing Guidelines C-1
Direct Addressing C-1
Indirect Addressing C-1
Extended Addressing C-1
STACK and STORE Statements C-2
Indexing Guidelines C-2
Arithmetic Guidelines C-3
Appendix D ASCII Character Set
Appendix E File Names and TACL Commands
Disk File Names E-1
Parts of a Disk File Name E-2
Partial File Names E-3
Logical File Names E-3
Internal File Names E-4
TACL Commands E-4