TAL Reference Summary

Standard Functions

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$CARRY Function The $CARRY function checks the state of the carry bit in the environment register and

indicates whether a carry out of the high-order bit position occurred.

$CARRY

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$COMP Function The $COMP function obtains the one’s complement of an INT expression.

$COMP int-expression

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$DBL Function The $DBL function returns an INT(32) value from an INT, FIXED(0), REAL, or

REAL(64) expression.

$DBL expression

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$DBLL Function The $DBLL function returns an INT(32) value from two INT values.

$DBLL int-expression int-expression,

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$DBLR Function The $DBLR function returns an INT(32) value from an INT, FIXED(0), REAL, or

REAL(64) expression and applies rounding to the result.

$DBLR

(

expression

)

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$DFIX Function The $DFIX function returns a FIXED(fpoint) expression from an INT(32) expression.

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$DFIX dbl-expression , fpoint( )