Chapter 5. General Language Features of M
 

In “Key Considerations - Writing TP Code”, Enhance guide lines

In “TP Definitions”, add description of combining TRESTART and TROLLBACK

In “TP Performance”, wording adjustments

In “Summary of GT.M Debugging Tools”, add ZLINK and auto-ZLINK to the $ZCSTATUS table entry

In “Interrupt Handling”, remove the extraneous "the".

In “Local Variables”, changed formalist to formallist

In “Interrupt Handling”, Revise CTRAP description

In “Pattern Code Indirection”, add missing quotes in the example.

In “Interrupt Handling”, add text about the interrupt handling for HANG and commands with timeouts

In “Timeouts”, correct the max timeout value.

In “String Literals”, UTF-8 mode tweaks.

In “Key Considerations - Writing TP Code”, change title to "Key Considerations - Writing TP Code", add introduction material, and enhance the TPNOTACID discussion.

In “Entry References”, remove a redundant note and specify that GT.M accepts an offset without a label for an entryref argument for DO, GOTO, and ZGOTO.

In “Pattern Match Operator”, add sentence about XECUTE deferral

In “TP Performance”, add a note about the VIEW [NO]LOGN[ONTP] and VIEW [NO]LOGT[PRESTART] facilities.

In “Timeouts”, describe precision and cap.

In “Arithmetic Operators”, added a statement about divide by literal zero being a run-time only error.

In “Atomic Indirection”, fixed typo by changing double to single underbar for concatenation

In “Name Indirection”, Fixed a typo in the Name Indirection sample

In “Postconditionals”, added explanation of behavior of literal FALSE.

In “Key Considerations - Writing TP Code”, corrected typo: whose affects -> whose effects

In “TP Example”, added a link to the description of the gtm_tpnotacidtime environment variable in the Administration and Operations Guide.

In “TP Performance”, Removed VMS-only text. Added description of TPRESTART message fields.

In “Numeric Relational Operators”, added <= and >= as new operators.

In “Indirection Concerns”, added a note on the handling of run-time errors.