[DTB] What is a dialect?

What is a dialect? And what does it mean for a dialect to support a
datatype?

This is not defined in DTB, but it is referred to very often. In
particular, what happens if I use a dialect (e.g., BLD), but use more
datatypes than are strictly required to be supported by implementations?

In addition, it is nowhere specified which datatypes are "supported" by
Core or BLD.

Received on Tuesday, 31 March 2009 16:13:32 UTC