Simple Value Classes

 

• BOOL: This type represents Boolean values. Note, however, that for alignment reasons an implementation may allocate more than one bit for storing a Boolean value.
• BYTE: a subtype of BITS[8].
• CHAR: This may be a subtype of BITS[8] but other choices may be made, e.g. for accommodating characters according to the UNICODE standard.
• INT, SHORT_INT, LONG_INT, UNSIGNED, SHORT_UNSIGNED, LONG_UNSIGNED:
  These numeric types are subtypes of BITS[n] for appropriate values of n.
• FLT, FLTD: These numeric types are subtypes of BITS[n] and represent floating point values according to the IEEE standard 754 - 1985 in single and double precision.
• INTINF: This reference type implements integers of arbitrary size (and thus is an implementation of UNIVERSAL_INT). INTINF and UNIVERSAL_INT are numeric types.
• TYPE: This type is used for the values returned by the procedure type defined in 8.1.