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| From | Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> |
| Subject | Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for.... |
| Date | 2012-07-19 11:35 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <m7eo6d.kfk@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> (permalink) |
| Organization | Dutch Forth Workshop |
| References | <2a5baeb8-2c72-41a6-8648-d52842405f18@n16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> <jth6qc$9l8$1@online.de> <ju7ifu02cet@enews2.newsguy.com> |
In article <ju7ifu02cet@enews2.newsguy.com>, WJ <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Anton Ertl wrote:
>
>> BTW, the source code for ;S and ?BRANCH is:
>>
>> ;s ( R:w -- ) gforth semis
>> ""The primitive compiled by @code{EXIT}.""
>> #ifdef NO_IP
>> INST_TAIL;
>> goto *(void *)w;
>> #else
>> SET_IP((Xt *)w);
>> #endif
>>
>> condbranch(?branch,f --,f83 question_branch,
>> ,if (f==0) {
>> ,:
>> 0= dup 0= \ !f f
>> r> tuck cell+ \ !f branchoffset f IP+
>> and -rot @ and or \ f&IP+|!f&branch
>> >r ;)
>>
>> There's some m4 in this, some Vmgen, some C, and some Forth.
>
>KISS
>
>(Keep it simple, stupid.)
I can confirm that m4 is sometimes just the best solution for
a problem. To generate ciforth's I use m4 to massage assembler
files. Currently I can generate Masm, nasm, gas and fasm format's.
Branches and headers use m4 too.
The old non-Intel gas has the order of operand's reversed.
That was a job for sed, not m4.
You need copper to fly a plane, but making a plane out of copper
is down right stupid. Using a single tool ("everything must be an
object", "you must define your Forth in C, the portable assembler")
is mostly not a global optimum.
Now what do you mean by KISS?
Groetjes Albert
--
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Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS
Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters.
albert@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst
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