TAL Reference Manual

TAL Syntax Summary (Bracket-and-Brace Diagrams)

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$SPECIAL Function

The $SPECIAL function tests the right half of an INT value for the presence of an

ASCII special (non-alphanumeric) character.

$SWITCHES Function

See Section 15, Privileged Procedures

$TYPE Function

The $TYPE function returns a value that indicates the data type of a variable.

$UDBL Function

The $UDBL function returns an INT(32) value from an unsigned INT expression.

$USERCODE Function

The $USERCODE function returns the content of the word at the specified location in

the current user code segment.

$XADR Function

The $XADR function converts a standard address to an extended address.

Privileged Procedures

The following syntax diagrams describe declarations for privileged procedures.

System Global Pointers

The system global pointer declaration associates an identifier with a memory location

that you load with the address of a variable located in the system global data area.

$SPECIAL ( int- expression )

$TYPE ( variable )

$UDBL ( int-expression )

$USERCODE ( expression )

$XADR ( variable )