VM Naming Conventions

The VM function names are lowercase.

The VM mathematical and pack/unpack function names have the following structure:

v[m]<?><name><mod>

where

The VM service function names have the following structure:

vml<name>

where

<name> indicates the function short name. See examples in Table "VM Service Functions".

To call VM functions from an application program, use conventional function calls. For example, call the vector single precision real exponential function as

call vsexp ( n, a, y )

call vmsexp ( n, a, y, mode ) with a specified mode