Environment enquiries (The GNU Algol 68 Compiler)

### 6.1 Environment enquiries ¶

An environment enquiry is a constant or a procedure, whose elaboration yields a value that may be useful to the programmer, that reflects some characteristic of the particular implementation. The values of these enquiries are also determined by the architecture and operating system targeted by the compiler.

Constant: `int` int lengths ¶

  1 plus the number of extra lengths of integers which are meaningful.

Constant: `int` int shorths ¶

  1 plus the number of extra shorths of integers which are meaningful.

Constant: `l int` L max int ¶

  The largest integral value.

Constant: `int` real lengths ¶

  1 plus the number of extra lengths of real numbers which are meaningful.

Constant: `int` real shorths ¶

  1 plus the number of extra shorths of real numbers which are meaningful.

Constant: `l real` L max real ¶

  The largest real value.

Constant: `l real` L small real ¶

  The smallest real value such that both `1 + small real > 1` and `1 - small real < 1`.

Constant: `int` bits lengths ¶

  1 plus the number of extra widths of bits which are meaningful.

Constant: `int` bits shorths ¶

  1 plus the number of extra shorths of bits which are meaningful.

Constant: `int` bits width ¶
Constant: `int` long bits width ¶
Constant: `int` long long bits width ¶

  The number of bits in a `bits` value.

Constant: `int` bytes lengths ¶

  1 plus the number of extra widths of bytes which are meaningful.

Constant: `int` bytes shorths ¶

  1 plus the number of extra shorths of bytes which are meaningful.

Constant: `int` bytes width ¶
Constant: `int` long bytes width ¶
Constant: `int` long long bytes width ¶

  The number of chars in a `bytes` value.

Constant: `int` max abs char ¶

  The largest value which `abs` of a `char` can yield.

Constant: `char` null character ¶

  Some character.

Constant: `char` flip ¶
Constant: `char` flop ¶

  Characters used to represent `true` and `false` boolean values in textual transput.

Constant: `char` error char ¶

  Character used to represent the digit of a value resulting from a conversion error in textual transput.

Constant: `char` blank ¶

  The space character.

Constant: `l real` L pi ¶

  The number pi.