Updated: 07 June 2001

OpenVMS Programming Concepts Manual

A
Absolute time
in system format
Access
physical I/O
Access and protection
checking
Access control entries
See ACEs
Access control lists
See ACLs
Access mask
Access modes
effect on AST delivery
specifying
with AST
Access name table
ACEs (access control entries)
creating #1
creating #2
maintaining #1
maintaining #2
translating #1
translating #2
ACLs (access control lists)
Address space
allocating by page #1
allocating by page #2
allocating in zones
deallocating by page #1
deallocating by page #2
deallocating by page #3
zones
Addresses
virtual memory
Affinity
types of
Affinity mechanism
Algorithms
for memory allocation
Aligning data
Alignment
natural
on OpenVMS Alpha systems
on OpenVMS VAX systems
OpenVMS Alpha systems
OpenVMS VAX
system services
with BLISS compiler
with compilers
with DEC C compiler
with DEC Fortran compiler
with MACRO-32 compiler
with OpenVMS Debugger
with PCA
with tools
with VEST translator
Alignment attribute
Area extension size
Argument lists
for AST service routine
for condition handler
Arguments
mechanism vector
Arithmetic exceptions
on Alpha systems
Arrays
mechanism
virtual address #1
virtual address #2
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
time
ASSIGN command
AST delivery
kernel threads
AST routines
overview
AST synchronization
shared data
ASTs (asynchronous system traps) #1
ASTs (asynchronous system traps) #2
ASTs (asynchronous system traps) #3
access mode
blocking #1
blocking #2
call frame
declaring
delivery #1
delivery #2
example
execution
in target process
parameter
process wait state
queuing
quota
re-entrant code
service routine
shared data access
system service
writing
Asynchronous input/output
Atomic instructions
effect on synchronization
Atomic memory reference
Atomicity
definition
Attributes
Dynamic
Holder Hidden
Name Hidden
No Access
Resource
Subsystem
B
Balance set
swapping #1
swapping #2
Binary semaphores
BIOLM (buffered I/O limit) quota
BLISS compiler
alignment
Block sizes
Blocking ASTs
description
using
Boot CPU
Booting an SMP system
Borders
virtual display
Boundary tags
Broadcast messages
Buffer objects
Fast I/O
Buffered I/O
operations
BYPASS privilege
BYTELM (buffered I/O byte count) quota
C
Caching
Call Frame
ASTs
Call-frame condition handlers
Call stacks
unwinding
Calling ASTs
Capabilities mechanism
Capability masks
CPU
process
Capability types
Catchall handlers #1
Catchall handlers #2
Chaining
Change-mode handlers
Channels
assigning I/O
deassigning
Character string routines
translation routines
Checking access and protection of logical name tables
$CHFDEF macro
$CHFDEF2 macro
CLI access routine
CLI (command language interpreter)
Clocks
setting system
Clusterwide logical name table
Clusterwide logical name tables
creating
Common areas
per-process
Common blocks
aligning
installing as a shared image
interprocess
modifying
Common event flag clusters
permanent
temporary
Compatibility mode handlers
Compilers
alignment
Condition codes
chaining
signaling
SS$_EXQUOTA
SS$_NOPRIV
Condition handlers
argument list
arithmetic
call frame
catchall #1
catchall #2
condition code
continuing execution of
debugging
default
establishing
example
exiting
last-chance
last-chance exception vector
mechanism argument vectors
primary exception vector
resignaling
searching for
secondary exception vectors
signal argument array
software supplied
specifying
traceback #1
traceback #2
types
types of action
unwinding
use of
user-supplied
writing
Condition handling
alignment fault reporting
arithmetic exceptions
continuing
displaying messages
GOTO unwind
hardware exception conditions
logging error messages
logging error messages to a file
mechanism argument vectors #1
mechanism argument vectors #2
mechanism array format
resignaling #1
resignaling #2
return status
run-time library support routines
signal argument vectors
signaling a condition
stack traceback
stack unwind #1
stack unwind #2
unwinding
user-defined messages
VAX hardware exceptions
Condition Handling Facility (CHF)
definition
function
Condition values #1
Condition values #2
definition
severity
Conditions
for exception
Control actions
inhibiting
Counting semaphores
CPU characteristics
SMP system
CPU-specific pages
CPUs (central processing units)
scheduling
$CRFCTLTABLE macro #1
$CRFCTLTABLE macro #2
$CRFFIELD macro #1
$CRFFIELD macro #2
$CRFFIELDEND macro #1
$CRFFIELDEND macro #2
Cross-Reference routines
Ctrl/C key sequence
Ctrl/Y key sequence
Ctrl/Z key sequence #1
Ctrl/Z key sequence #2
Current procedure
Current time
Cursor movement

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