TAL Reference Summary

Statements

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Move Statement The move statement copies contiguous bytes, words, or elements to a new location.

FOR

':='

source

destination

'=:'

count-

unit

–>

next-

addr

051

count

constant

constant-list

][ constant

count-unit

BYTES

Copies count bytes. If source and destination both have word

addresses, BYTES generates a word copy for (count + 1) / 2 words.

WORDS Copies count words.

ELEMENTS Copies count occurrences of structures. structure pointers, and

substructures. Otherwise, copies count units depending on data

type.

RETURN Statement The RETURN statement returns control to the caller. For a function, RETURN must

return a result expression. As of the D20 release, RETURN can also return a condition-

code value.

RETURN

052

result-expression

RETURN

cc-expression,