Associated Documents

This document is a component of the Alpha Software Architecture. It depends on other standards and conventions that are not described in this document. These standards and conventions include:

• Object language (including link-time optimizations) and object file format
  
  
• Status values and message definition, formatting, and reporting
  
  
• Heap memory management and dynamic string management
  
  
• Multithread architecture
  
  
• Names and naming conventions

In addition to documentation for Windows NT, other related information can be found in:

• Alpha System Reference Manual
  
  
• OpenVMS Calling Standard, December 1995
  
  
• Digital UNIX Calling Standard for Alpha Systems, March 1996
  
  
• POSIX 1003.1, IEEE Standard Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments - IEEE Std 1003.1-1988
  
  
• American National Standard for Information Systems Programming Language C - ANSI X3.159-1989 (or its ISO equivalent, ISO 9899)