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| From | David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Gforth-EC, the underappreciated embedded Forth |
| Date | 2012-02-07 16:55 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <8762fibptf.fsf@mosquito.pool> (permalink) |
| References | <87fwen62fr.fsf@snail.Pool> <lz164z.9v@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> |
>>>>> "Albert" == Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> writes: > In article <87fwen62fr.fsf@snail.Pool>, > David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been having a look at Gforth-EC lately, that's the embedded >> cross-compiled Forth support that has been included with Gforth all >> the time, but as it's well hidden and pretty undocumented, I guess >> most people wouldn't have noticed it. >> >> Now it turns out it only takes a few commands to generate a usable >> 8086 gforth-ec executable, running in dosbox (i.e. emulated under >> Linux): >> >> From the Gforth source directory, run: >> >> ./build-ec 8086 mv kernl-8086.fi gforthec.com # need to rename for >> dosbox to execute it dosbox gforthec.com > Slightly surprising. I expect a Forth only to run on a dosbox if it > does INT 21 io. I expect an embedded Forth to work independant from > MSDOS INT 21 stuff. It does use int 21 io, see definition of (emit) &friends in [1]. The nice thing is that this is really completely compiled&assembled from forth. No binutils, GCC etc. involved. cheers, David [1] http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cvsweb/cgi-bin/cvsweb/gforth/arch/8086/prim.fs?rev=1.6;content-type=text%2Fplain -- GnuPG public key: http://dvdkhlng.users.sourceforge.net/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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Gforth-EC, the underappreciated embedded Forth David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de> - 2012-02-06 23:07 +0100
Re: Gforth-EC, the underappreciated embedded Forth Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-02-07 16:07 +0000
Re: Gforth-EC, the underappreciated embedded Forth BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-02-07 07:51 -0800
Re: Gforth-EC, the underappreciated embedded Forth David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de> - 2012-02-07 16:55 +0100
Re: Gforth-EC, the underappreciated embedded Forth Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2012-02-08 01:30 +0100
Re: Gforth-EC, the underappreciated embedded Forth David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de> - 2012-02-08 09:52 +0100
Re: Gforth-EC, the underappreciated embedded Forth David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de> - 2012-02-10 01:45 +0100
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