Guide to the HP Structure Definition Language

Contents

Preface
Preface	Preface
Chapter 1
1	Overview
1.1	The HP SDL Translation Process
1.2	Description of a Sample HP SDL Source File
Chapter 2
2	Creating, Editing, and Processing a HP SDL Source File
2.1	Creating a HP SDL Source File with LSE
2.1.1	Entering Source Code Using Placeholders and Tokens
2.1.2	Getting Started with the LSE Templates for HP SDL
2.1.3	Compiling Source Code
2.2	Processing a HP SDL Source File
Chapter 3
3	HP SDL Language Elements
3.1	Names
3.1.1	Local Symbol Names
3.1.2	Source Program Identifiers
3.2	Keywords
3.2.1	Declaration Keywords
3.2.2	Declaration Modifier Keywords
3.2.2.1	User-Specified TYPENAME keyword
3.2.2.2	PREFIX, MARKER, and TAG Keywords
3.2.2.3	Alignment Keywords
3.2.2.4	Storage Class Keywords
3.2.2.5	SDL Storage Classes and Typedef Syntax
3.2.2.6	Data Types
3.2.2.7	DIMENSION Keyword
3.2.3	Data Type Keywords
3.2.3.1	Pointer Data Types
3.2.3.2	ANY Data Type
3.2.3.3	BITFIELD Data Type
3.2.3.4	BOOLEAN Data Type
3.2.3.5	CHARACTER Data Type
3.2.3.6	COMPLEX Data Types
3.2.3.7	DECIMAL Data Type
3.2.3.8	Floating-Point Data Types
3.2.3.9	Integer Data Types
3.3	Expressions
3.4	Local Comments
3.5	Output Comments
3.6	INCLUDE Statement
3.7	READ Statement
3.8	Conditional SDL Compilation
3.8.1	Conditional SDL Compilation using the IFLANGUAGE statement
3.8.2	Conditional SDL Compilation using the IFSYMBOL statement
3.9	Text Pass-through
3.10	DECLARE Statement
Chapter 4
4	HP SDL Declarations
Command 1	MODULE Declaration
4.1	MODULE Description
4.2	MODULE Format
Command 2	ITEM Declaration
4.3	ITEM Description
4.4	ITEM Format
Command 3	AGGREGATE Declaration
4.5	AGGREGATE Description
4.5.1	Subaggregate Declaration
4.5.2	STRUCTURE Declaration
4.5.3	UNION Declaration
4.5.4	Implicit Union Declarations
4.5.5	Implicit Union Declarations with the Optional DIMENSION Keyword
4.5.6	Forcing Negative Offsets
4.5.7	Forcing Data Alignment
4.5.8	Using Offset Symbols
4.6	AGGREGATE Format
Command 4	CONSTANT Declaration
4.7	CONSTANT Description
4.8	CONSTANT Format
Command 5	ENTRY Declaration
4.9	ENTRY Description
4.10	ENTRY Format
Appendix A
Appendix A	HP SDL Diagnostic Messages
Appendix B
Appendix B	HP SDL Language Translation Summaries
Command 6	HP Ada Translation Summary
Command 7	HP BASIC Translation Summary
Command 8	HP BLISS Translation Summary
Command 9	HP C/C++ Translation Summary
Command 10	HP DATATRIEVE Translation Summary
Command 11	HP FORTRAN Translation Summary
Command 12	HP MACRO Translation Summary
Command 13	HP Pascal Translation Summary
Command 14	Kednos PL/I Translation Summary
Command 15	HP OpenVMS DCL Translation Summary
Command 16	SDML Translation Summary
Command 17	DECTPU Translation Summary
Command 18	UIL Translation Summary
Appendix C
Appendix C	ASCII Character Set
Index
Index
Examples
1-1	Sample HP SDL Source File
1-2	Kednos PL/I Output File for the Sample HP SDL Source File
2-1	Creating a Sample HP SDL Source File Using LSE
Figures
1-1	HP SDL Translation Process
Tables
2-1	SDL Command Qualifiers and Their Defaults
2-2	HP SDL Output Language Options and File Types
3-1	Keywords That Identify or End Declarations
3-2	Keywords Used in Declarations
3-3	Default Tags Used by HP SDL