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Programming Interfaces
External Program Interfaces
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Host Language Call Interface
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Using HLC library functions
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Data type conversion
Data type conversion
HLC data type conversion happens in two directions:
From C language data types to ABL data types. This occurs when you write to an ABL shared variable or shared buffer.
From ABL data types to C language data types. This occurs when you read from an ABL shared variable or shared buffer.
In this section:
Converting C language data types to ABL data types
Converting ABL data types to C language data types
From C language data types to ABL data types. This occurs when you write to an ABL shared variable or shared buffer.
From ABL data types to C language data types. This occurs when you read from an ABL shared variable or shared buffer.
