TAL Reference Manual

Equivalenced Variables

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Base-Address Equivalenced Referral Structure

A base-address equivalenced referral structure declaration associates a new structure

with a global, local, or top-of-stack base address.

. (period)

is the standard indirection symbol and denotes 16-bit indirect addressing. An

absence of any indirection symbol (. or .EXT) denotes 16-bit direct addressing.

.EXT

is the extended indirection symbol and denotes 32-bit indirect addressing. An

absence of any indirection symbol (. or .EXT) denotes 16-bit direct addressing.

identifier

is the identifier of a referral structure to be made equivalent to base-address.

referral

is the identifier of a previously declared structure or structure pointer that provides

the structure layout for

identifier.

base-address

is one of the following base address symbols:

'G' Denotes global addressing relative to G[0]

'L' Denotes local addressing relative to L[0]

'S' Denotes top-of-stack addressing relative to S[0]

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referral

identifier

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.EXT

base-address

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