TAL Programmer's Guide

Data Type Correspondence

096254 Tandem Computers Incorporated F–5

Table F-6. Pointer Types

Procedure Pointer Byte Pointer Word Pointer Extended Pointer

BASIC — — — —

C function pointer byte pointer word pointer extended pointer

COBOL — — — —

FORTRAN — — — —

Pascal Procedure pointer Pointer, byte-addressed

BYTEADDR

Pointer, byte-addressed

WORDADDR

Pointer, extended-addressed

EXTADDR

SQL — — — —

TAL — 16-bit pointer,

byte-addressed

16-bit pointer,

word-addressed

32-bit pointer

Return Value

Size (Words)

1 or 2, depends on

declared pointer size

1 or 2, depends on

declared pointer size

1 or 2, depends on

declared pointer size

1 or 2, depends on declared

pointer size