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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:00:57 +0000
From: Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: I need a real big data stack
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On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:40:18 -0800 (PST)
lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Den onsdag 20 januari 2016 kl. 21:15:14 UTC+1 skrev Jan Coombs:
> > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:19:36 -0800 (PST)
> > lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I can do it in SP-Forth and I could do it in FIG-Forth. I
> > > understand that it creates problem with portability and
> > > that there are no standard words to change the stack
> > > buffer area, but I would like to be able to do it anyway.
> > > 
> > > Is it possible in GForth?
> > 
> > Yes, but googled as I was too lazy to read manual: 
> > 
> > https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Stack-and-Dictionary-Sizes.html
> 
> I may need a stack of hundreds of thousands bytes. Not what i
> want in the dictionary...

try this:

jan:~$ gforth -d 1048576
Gforth 0.7.0, Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Free Software Foundation,
Inc. Gforth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type
`license' Type `bye' to exit
: t 130000 0 do i loop cr depth . ;  ok
t 
130000  ok
.s <130000> 129991 129992 129993 129994 129995 129996 129997
129998 129999  ok


It was mentioned in the above ref, but this one is better:

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Invoking-Gforth.html#Invoking-Gforth


Jan Coombs