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Re: String Constants

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Subject Re: String Constants
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
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Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Date 2011-04-23 11:29 +0000
Message-ID <2011Apr23.132955@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)

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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> wrote:
>> The unused data space, whose starting address is given by HERE and whose 
>> size is given by UNUSED, is accessible by Standard Programs.  This space 
>> may contain the buffers used by WORD, pictured numeric output words, and 
>> PAD.  The addresses of these buffers may change when HERE is changed.

Good.

>That's nice, but there is a problem: we don't know which standard
>words call WORD.

All words that parse the input stream and (not a standard word) the
text interpreter.

This results in:

|The unused data space, whose starting address is given by HERE and
|whose size is given by UNUSED, is accessible by Standard Programs.
|This space may contain the buffers used by: the text interpreter and
|any word that parses; pictured numeric output words; and PAD.  The
|addresses of these buffers may change when HERE is changed.

- anton
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Re: String Constants anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-04-22 17:44 +0000
  Re: String Constants BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-22 11:59 -0700
  Re: String Constants Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2011-04-22 10:08 -1000
    IOW t'was [Re: String Constants] Richard Owlett <rowlett@pcnetinc.com> - 2011-04-22 21:05 -0500
    Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-23 03:14 -0500
      Re: String Constants anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-04-23 11:29 +0000
        Re: String Constants Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-24 03:06 -0500
      Re: String Constants Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2011-04-23 09:35 -1000

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