Integers
The object type INTEGER is the basic one of SYMMETRICA . Let us first
consider the following program that serves for the generation of
an INTEGERobject:
#include "def.h"
#include "macro.h"
main()
{
INT b = 5L;
OP a;
anfang();
a = callocobject();
m_i_i(b,a);
println(a);
freeall(a);
ende();
}
Here is a short explanation: SYMMETRICA uses the type INT for
integervalues,
INT is an integer, which is always four bytes long. It is in
most cases of the type long of C. Therefore you have to write 5L, say,
in order to
specify a 4-byte integer. This is a problem of C and not of SYMMETRICA .
In the above program you have, after entering a=callocobject(), an
empty object a, which becomes an INTEGERobject
with value 5 by the command m_i_i(b,a). Then the object is printed to
the terminal, using the
standard routine println().
We are now going to describe this basic routine to some detail, others will
follow.
harald.fripertinger@kfunigraz.ac.at,
last changed: November 19, 2001
