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b type-information ; bytes
-
Pascal space type. This is documented by IBM; what does it mean?
This use of the `b' type descriptor can be distinguished
from its use for builtin integral types (see section Defining Builtin Types Using Builtin Type Descriptors) because the character following the type descriptor is
always a digit, `(', or `-'.
B type-information
-
A volatile-qualified version of type-information. This is
a Sun extension. References and stores to a variable with a
volatile-qualified type must not be optimized or cached; they
must occur as the user specifies them.
d type-information
-
File of type type-information. As far as I know this is only used
by Pascal.
k type-information
-
A const-qualified version of type-information. This is a Sun
extension. A variable with a const-qualified type cannot be modified.
M type-information ; length
-
Multiple instance type. The type seems to composed of length
repetitions of type-information, for example
character*3 is
represented by `M-2;3', where `-2' is a reference to a
character type (see section Negative Type Numbers). I'm not sure how this
differs from an array. This appears to be a Fortran feature.
length is a bound, like those in range types; see section Subrange Types.
S type-information
-
Pascal set type. type-information must be a small type such as an
enumeration or a subrange, and the type is a bitmask whose length is
specified by the number of elements in type-information.
In CHILL, if it is a bitstring instead of a set, also use the `S'
type attribute (see section The String Field).
* type-information
-
Pointer to type-information.
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