TAL Reference Manual

TAL Syntax Summary (Railroad Diagrams)
Appendix B—526371.001
B-7
Bit Shifts
Bit Shifts
A bit shift operation shifts a bit field a specified number of positions to the left or to the
right within a variable without altering the variable.
Declarations
Declaration syntax diagrams describe:
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LITERALs and DEFINEs
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Simple variables
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Arrays and read-only arrays
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Structures—definition structures, template structures, referral structures
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Structure items—simple variables, arrays, substructures, filler bytes, filler bits,
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simple pointers, structure pointers, and redefinitions
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Simple pointers and structure pointers
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Equivalenced variables
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NAMEs and BLOCKs
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Procedures and subprocedures
LITERAL and DEFINE Declarations
The following syntax diagrams describe LITERAL and DEFINE declarations.
LITERALs
A LITERAL associates an identifier with a constant.
int-expression
dbl-expression
shift-operator positions
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