The HLA Standard Library

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v1.78 Documented the array.lookupTable macro. Also described hll.useBubbleSort forr SWITCH macro.

v1.71 Documented the stdout.write and stdin.read routines.

v1.69 Documented new memory allocation routines.

v1.68 Documented arg.a_v, arg.a_cmdLn, arg.destroy, and arg.args routines. Modified description of fileio.eof to reflect changes made under Windows.

v1.64 Documented the str.iprefix, str.iprefix2, str.iindex, str.iindex2, str.irindex, and str.irindex2 functions.

v1.63 Documented str.truncate and str.a_truncate; documented env.get and env.a_get.

v1.60 Added documentation for the os.system function.

v1.57 Added documentation for the mmap module.

v1.55 Modified description of fileio.eof to mention problems with stdin.

v1.39 Added descriptions for the zero-terminated string functions: str.cpyz, str.a_cpyz, str.catz, str.zcpy, str.zcat, and str.zcmp.

v1.38: Added descriptions for the 64-bit and 128-bit arithmetic and I/O routines.

v1.37: Changed description of str.trim, str.a_trim, stridelspace, and str.a_delspace to match the changes in the code.

v1.35: Began maintaining version numbers for this document.

The following sections provide a basic description of some of the routines in the HLA Standard Library. Keep in mind that the HLA Standard Library is a work in progress and the following sections may not be totally up to date. The HLA Standard Library source code is the final arbitor if there is a question how the routines operate.

Unless otherwise noted, you can assume that the Standard Library routines preserve all the general purpose registers. They generally do not preserve the flags.