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Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated?

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In article <LI6dnfCxLNT4FeHSnZ2dnUVZ_oqdnZ2d@supernews.com>,
Elizabeth D. Rather <erather@forth.com> wrote:
>
>Windows system calls are pretty messy, but that's not Forth's problem.
>I'll try to look up the longest definition in a SwiftX kernel and get
>back to you on that.

I have finally come around looking in detail into Windows system calls.

They are actually much less messy than the DOS interrupt 21 was,
where you never knew which register were safe, or information
was returned in cpu-flags.

Now it is more straight forward. You put things on the stack. Then you
jump to a subroutine (that is actually in the memory space.) After the
call you remove things from the stack. (OK, sometimes they do it for
you). The real programming with Windows calls is documentation, the
"things" you have to put on the stack. Like a symbolic constant
STD_INPUT_HANDLE. We need to know what the actual value is, before it
can be used in Forth.

EBP, EBX and ESI EDI are preserved and ESP is controlled.
This may very well mean that we need not worry about any internal
registers used by Forth.

>
>> I have a list of many issues for C, yet it's still a great language.
>
>Cheers,
>Elizabeth


Groetjes Albert

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Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-03-30 18:40 -0400
  Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-03-30 13:24 -1000
    Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2012-03-31 20:56 +0200
      Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-04-01 06:06 -0400
        Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-04-01 07:57 -1000
        Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2012-04-02 19:14 +0200
          Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-04-03 06:02 -0400
      Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-03-31 12:32 -0700
  Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2012-03-30 23:46 +0000
    Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-03-30 20:58 -1000
      Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-03-31 03:31 -0400
        Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-03-31 08:25 -1000
        Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-03-31 12:02 -0700
          Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-04-03 06:01 -0400
            Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-04-03 08:38 -1000
              Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-04-04 05:24 -0400
                Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-04-04 07:44 -1000
                Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-04-05 11:51 +0000
                Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2012-04-05 21:10 +0200
                Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-04-05 09:33 -0400
                Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-04-05 08:12 -1000
                Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-04-04 07:23 -0700
                Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnot.cmm> - 2012-04-05 09:50 -0400
                Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-04-05 12:26 -0700
    Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-03-31 03:29 -0400
      Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? Josh Grams <josh@qualdan.com> - 2012-03-31 09:58 +0000
        Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? segher <segher@kernel.crashing.org> - 2012-03-31 04:21 -0700
        Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-03-31 07:19 -0700
      Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2012-03-31 15:29 +0200
      Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-03-31 20:28 -0400
        Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-03-31 19:48 -0700
      Re: Does ?DO force DO to become bloated? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-03-31 07:43 -0700

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