Specifies the nomenclature and shared semantics for a collection of datatypes commonly occurring in programming languages and software interfaces, referred to as the General-Purpose Datatypes (GPD). It specifies both primitive datatypes, in the sense of being defined ab initio without reference to other datatypes, and non-primitive datatypes, in the sense of being wholly or partly defined in terms of other datatypes. The specification of datatypes in this International Standard is general-purpose in the sense that the datatypes specified are classes of datatype of which the actual datatypes used in programming languages and other entities requiring the concept datatype are particular instances. These datatypes are general in nature; thus, they serve a wide variety of information processing applications.
