Generic Safety-Related Data Types

Generic data types are data types which include hierarchical groups of elementary data types. By specifying a generic data type as possible input or output value, the respective function can process all elementary data types included in this generic data type. The generic data type ANY_SAFEBIT, for example, includes the elementary data types SAFEDWORD, SAFEWORD, SAFEBYTE and SAFEBOOL. If a function can be connected with ANY_SAFEBIT, it means that variables of these data types can be handled.

Generic safety-related data types are organized as follows: