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Ch 10. Intrinsics [ HP Pascal/iX Programmer's Guide ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


HP Pascal/iX Programmer's Guide

Chapter 10  Intrinsics 

An intrinsic is an external routine that can be called by a program
written in any language that the operating system supports.  An intrinsic
can be written in any supported language, but its formal parameters must
be of types that have counterparts in the other supported languages.

An intrinsic definition resides in an intrinsic file (though its code
resides in a library).  You can use existing intrinsics as they are,
modify them, or define new intrinsics.  You can put new intrinsics in new
or existing intrinsic files and libraries.  Your program can access any
intrinsic by declaring it and specifying the intrinsic file that defines
it.

This chapter:

   *   Explains how your program can use intrinsics.
   *   Tells you how to define an intrinsic.
   *   Tells you how to build or change an intrinsic file.



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