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From: Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Subject: Re: VFX code quality
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>> No.  As Elizabeth said, Chuck defined a primitive that used whatever
>> registers were available.  This has always been the Forth way to do it.
> 
> Oh my.  You mean a CODE word just to get around this issue.  That was so
> far off my radar that it went past me.

There never has been the slightest barrier to dropping into code for
stuff like this; when I was doing Forth full-time I'd use asm whenever
it was useful.  It never is that much of a big deal to just recode
primitives when porting.

Andrew.