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Re: Ideas for a portable Forth

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In article <e6b66ad7-863c-4aa9-b19b-26d02b47877b@e8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
Brad  <hwfwguy@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I was thinking about portable Forths the other day and started
>wondering if NASM is a better implementation language than GNU C. NASM
>covers a pretty wide range of platforms. If you're going to machine-
>generate source code, like Gforth does, why not generate NASM?

I went a step further, and support NASM, TASM, MASM, gas and now FASM
in my portable Forths for the 80x86.
Macro facilities allow for 16/32/64 easily, and switching assemblers
turns out not to be a big deal, once you decide to generate source
code.

NOTE: I don't think this approach is better then gForth's.
It is different, and serves some purposes better, some worse.
For sure you have more control.

If you are to start on this way, I vehemently advocate FASM.
It assembles itself (in a splitsecond), and it assembles its
Windows incarnation on Linux, and its Linux incarnation on Windows
without a glitch. It is fully self contained, an assembler
written in portable assembler, not portable c.

You can download and reassemble it yourself, in the time you need
to get an idea about how to recompile nasm yourself or get its
sources.

>
>For the terminal, I think GTK would be ideal. It runs on Windows, Mac
>and Linux and could be used for graphic applications instead of being
>text-only like most C Forths.

Using gas even set me thinking. It is as easy to use GTK from gas
as using GTK from a Forth interface.
Is Forth an unstable middle ground between assembler and
Visual Studio/Eclipse ?

>
>-Brad

Groetjes Albert

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Ideas for a portable Forth Brad <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 07:26 -0800
  Re: Ideas for a portable Forth Tarkin <tarkin000@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 10:32 -0800
    Re: Ideas for a portable Forth Brad <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 06:44 -0800
      Re: Ideas for a portable Forth "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-01-18 09:34 -0500
        Re: Ideas for a portable Forth Mat <dambere@web.de> - 2012-01-18 12:09 -0800
        Re: Ideas for a portable Forth Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-01-18 14:57 -0800
          Re: Ideas for a portable Forth "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-01-19 03:06 -0500
            Re: Ideas for a portable Forth Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-01-19 03:14 -0800
              Re: Ideas for a portable Forth "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-01-19 17:33 -0500
                Re: Ideas for a portable Forth stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-01-20 09:37 +0000
                Re: Ideas for a portable Forth Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-01-20 03:02 -0800
                Re: Ideas for a portable Forth Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-01-20 04:25 -0800
                Re: Ideas for a portable Forth Mat <dambere@web.de> - 2012-01-21 07:42 -0800
                Re: Ideas for a portable Forth "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-01-21 15:48 -0500
                Re: Ideas for a portable Forth Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-01-21 15:01 -0800
                Re: Ideas for a portable Forth "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-01-21 21:14 -0500
  Re: Ideas for a portable Forth Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-01-16 22:42 +0000
  Re: Ideas for a portable Forth "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-01-17 07:43 -0500

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