TAL Programmer's Guide

Appendix F Data Type Correspondence
096254 Tandem Computers Incorporated F–1
The tables in this appendix provide information on:
Data type correspondence among Tandem languages
The return value size generated by each data type
These tables are useful if your programs:
Use data from files created in another language
Pass parameters to programs written in callable languages
The return value sizes given in these tables do not correspond to the storage size of
SQL data types. For a complete list of SQL data type correspondence, see the
appropriate NonStop SQL programmer’s guide.
Note COBOL includes COBOL74, COBOL85, and SCREEN COBOL unless otherwise noted.
If you use the Data Definition Language (DDL) utility to describe your files, you might
not need these tables. For more information, see the Data Definition Language
(DDL)Reference Manual.