The Base Toolkit - C details

In the C library for the Base Toolkit, you will find 13 members, including code that demonstrates:

• Accepting and working with PARM data from the EXEC statement
• Working with files containing fixed length records and variable length records
• Static and dynamic invocation of subroutines
• Coding subroutines
• Report logic
• Simple array handling
• Using the following language features:
• Coding using trigraphs, digraphs, and monographs (text) styles
• Packed-decimal data items
• Passing and receiving string data
• Updating passed string data
• C functions: fopen, fclose, fwrite, fread, printf, sprintf
• C functions: sizeof, memcpy, strcpy, atoi, strcat, strlen, exit
• typedef
• fetch

In addition, the User's Guide discusses how to:

• Use the OPTFILE option to tell the compiler to look in SYSOPTF for more compiler parms
• Use the SYSOPTF DD statement for compiler parms