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Chapter 3 LANGUAGES HP Pascal/XL by Jon Henderson--Information Technology Group HP Pascal/XL A.01.01 is the first Native Mode Pascal compiler for MPE XL. The compiler conforms to the HP Pascal, ANSI/IEEE770X3.97-1983 and ISO7185-1983 Level 1 Standards and contains a set of features that are a superset of Pascal/V. The new features available are described below. SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING FEATURES Pascal/XL provides a set of features to facilitate systems programming. Among these features are: additional packing/alignment and procedure options, type coercion, new dynamic variable handling and recovery. OPTIMIZATION The HP Pascal/XL compiler supports two levels of optimization of object code. MIGRATION New compiler options are added to assist in the migration of programs and data, which depend upon Series/V-specific packing and alignment. PROCEDURE OPTION INLINE The INLINE procedure option aids in the increase of program execution efficiency, whenever a procedure is called, by inserting the code for that procedure into the code stream instead of generating a call to it. SYMBOLIC DEBUGGER Support is provided for symbolic debugging of code using HP TOOLSET/XL. INTRINSIC BUILDING Pascal/XL provides the ability to create, alter, and list Native Mode intrinsic files.
NOTE The above list is a partial description only. Full particulars may be obtained by consulting the HP Pascal Reference Manual (P/N 31502-90001) and the HP Pascal Programmer's Guide (P/N 31502-90002).