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| From | Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for.... |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| References | <2a5baeb8-2c72-41a6-8648-d52842405f18@n16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> <wbOdnWwHX40ca5rNnZ2dnUVZ8lSdnZ2d@supernews.com> <m7f79o.4zm@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> <AoSdnRyPuOGE15XNnZ2dnUVZ8vWdnZ2d@supernews.com> <m7gsgf.3ih@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> |
| Message-ID | <XMGdnXdTEc3LG5TNnZ2dnUVZ8tydnZ2d@supernews.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2012-07-20 11:24 -0500 |
Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote: > In article <AoSdnRyPuOGE15XNnZ2dnUVZ8vWdnZ2d@supernews.com>, > Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote: >>Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote: >>> In article <wbOdnWwHX40ca5rNnZ2dnUVZ8lSdnZ2d@supernews.com>, >>> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote: >>>>Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote: >>>> >>>>Sure, but if your Forth was written in Forth you wouldn't have to do >>>>any of this stuff. >>> >>> A fair comparison would be to require that the result is a windows >>> executable, and the Forth code is acceptable to 4 Forth compilers on >>> Windows. >>> Then I definitely need a whole slew of m4 code. >> >>I don't really understand why this is a goal. If your Forth could >>build itself, why would you want to build it on some other Forth? I >>dont think I've ever heard of a Forth in Forth that builds itself on >>*any* Forth. > > It was pretty easy to port ciforth to OSX. You would magically assume > that you already have your Forth on OSX in order to bootstrap it. Sure, you need your Forth running on something, but you only have to do that once. After that, you just cross-compile. > If you OTOH cross build the OSX Forth on a working MS Windows Forth > then you have to study the layout of the executables on OSX. > I use the built in knowledge of the OSX system tools. Oh yes, that's true, but once it's done you're free of those system tools. There are hybrid approaches such a using native assembler as a bootstrap loader for a binary if the native formats are so truly awful. And, I grant you, they are not nice. Andrew.
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