Re: Presence of standard words (was: CfV: S>F and F>S)

From	stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Presence of standard words (was: CfV: S>F and F>S)
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Date	2012-08-05 11:34 +0000

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On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:07:23 GMT, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
(Anton Ertl) wrote:

>Arcane incantations or maybe less arcane standardized
>incantations may be appropriate for embedded systems, but on a big
>machine?  No.  And even on embedded systems the system could leave
>unused words away, no need for arcane or standardized incantations.

And for those systems that have a choice of (say) floating point
packages. What does
  load-wordset float
actually do? You now have to specify which one. The same applies
for embedded systems. For example, on an ARM Cortex (M0/M1, M3,
and M4) there's a choice of three instruction sets, one with 32
bit floats. If you really want to standardise all this stuff,
you need to standardise real life. Nobody has ever managed that.

Stephen

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CfV: S>F and F>S anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-02 16:51 +0000
  Re: CfV: S>F and F>S mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2012-08-02 22:28 +0200
    Re: CfV: S>F and F>S Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-02 23:36 +0200
  Re: CfV: S>F and F>S Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2012-08-03 04:39 -0700
    Re: CfV: S>F and F>S Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-03 19:56 +0200
      Re: CfV: S>F and F>S mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2012-08-03 21:18 +0200
        Re: CfV: S>F and F>S anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-04 09:50 +0000
          Re: CfV: S>F and F>S Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-04 21:51 +0200
            Presence of standard words (was: CfV: S>F and F>S) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-05 11:07 +0000
              Re: Presence of standard words (was: CfV: S>F and F>S) stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-08-05 11:34 +0000
                Re: Presence of standard words (was: CfV: S>F and F>S) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-05 13:59 +0200
                Re: Presence of standard words (was: CfV: S>F and F>S) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-06 11:22 +0000
        Re: CfV: S>F and F>S Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2012-08-04 04:50 -0700
          Re: CfV: S>F and F>S stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-08-04 12:30 +0000
            Re: CfV: S>F and F>S C G Montgomery <cgm@physics.utoledo.edu> - 2012-08-05 09:14 -0400
          Re: CfV: S>F and F>S Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-04 21:47 +0200
      Re: CfV: S>F and F>S Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2012-08-04 05:42 -0700

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