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Re: libpng12 makes it impossible to compile gforth with C bindings

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: libpng12 makes it impossible to compile gforth with C bindings
Date 2017-02-09 10:37 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2017Feb9.113754@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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caleb.ristvedt@cune.org writes:
>Sorry, I was actually thinking of C-FUNCTION, but failed to catch that mist=
>ake in typing - that's the problem with interacting with others as a last r=
>esort, you're always tired and frustrated when you do so. \c isn't defined =
>either, but C-LIBRARY is. Actually, after using C-LIBRARY, then \c and stuf=
>f seems to work... the manual (at least, as far as I've read) didn't seem t=
>o indicate that C-LIBRARY had to be used before C-FUNCTION could be used. I=
>t doesn't have to be used on my laptop's installation (from the Ubuntu 16.0=
>4 repositories, 0.7.2) in order to use C-FUNCTION, but does have to be used=
> on my desktop which is using the built-from-scratch 0.7.9_20170112. I assu=
>med that some issue in compilation was causing this difference, but it seem=
>s that was a faulty assumption. Did the usage of C-FUNCTION change from 0.7=
>.2 and now?

Yes.  Apparently the idea now is to use it between C-LIBRARY and
END-C-LIBRARY.

The question is: Should we fix the documentation or the code?  Does
anybody have code that they care about and that uses C-FUNCTION
etc. outside C-LIBRARY ... END-C-LIBRARY?

- anton
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libpng12 makes it impossible to compile gforth with C bindings anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2017-02-03 18:46 -0800
  Re: libpng12 makes it impossible to compile gforth with C bindings anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-02-06 08:53 +0000
  Re: libpng12 makes it impossible to compile gforth with C bindings caleb.ristvedt@cune.org - 2017-02-08 14:59 -0800
    Re: libpng12 makes it impossible to compile gforth with C bindings anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2017-02-08 19:53 -0800
    Re: libpng12 makes it impossible to compile gforth with C bindings anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-02-09 10:37 +0000
      Re: libpng12 makes it impossible to compile gforth with C bindings anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2017-02-12 02:59 -0800
        Re: libpng12 makes it impossible to compile gforth with C bindings anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2017-02-12 13:04 -0800
          Re: libpng12 makes it impossible to compile gforth with C bindings anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2017-02-12 15:24 -0800
        Re: libpng12 makes it impossible to compile gforth with C bindings anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-02-13 14:18 +0000
          Compilation errors anotherreepca@gmail.com - 2017-02-14 17:10 -0800

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