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Re: Why does the location of PAD move around?

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Why does the location of PAD move around?
Date 2017-04-04 11:06 +1000
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Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
> On 4/2/17 2:46 PM, HAA wrote:
> > Coos Haak wrote:
> >> Op Sun, 2 Apr 2017 21:31:25 +1000 schreef HAA:
> >>
> >>> Rod Pemberton wrote:
> >>>> Why does the location of PAD move around?
> >>>>
> >>>> TIB is allocated at a fixed location, but
> >>>> PAD's location is relative to HERE.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Rod Pemberton
> >>>
> >>> If it wasn't, it would have to be a fixed size.  Then you'd
> >>> have trouble deciding what size to make it.
> >>>
> >>> Oops!  That's what ANS did :)
> >>
> >> You mean that ANS prescribed a fixed size?
> >> It didn't!
> >> You might have used reverse logic ;-)
> >>
> >> groet Coos
> >
> > It may as well be fixed.  Anyone with pretentions of writing a 'portable
> > program' will be going out their way not to exceed the minimums quoted.
> > To do otherwise is to limit your audience which would be self-defeating.
>
> Not at all. You just need to document the amount of PAD your program
> requires. Then it will be standard and run on any system with that much
> PAD available (which will probably be most).
>
> Cheers,
> Elizabeth

'Standard' would be interrogating /PAD and aborting if it wasn't sufficient.
But who does that.


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Why does the location of PAD move around? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-04-01 21:07 -0400
  Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-01 19:32 -0700
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-04-02 02:00 -0400
      Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-01 23:51 -0700
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-01 21:59 -1000
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-04-09 09:54 -0700
  Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-01 20:10 -0700
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-01 18:39 -1000
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 08:29 -0700
  Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-02 04:13 -0500
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-02 18:08 -0700
      Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 18:13 -0700
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-02 18:22 -0700
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 18:31 -0700
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-03 04:37 +0200
            Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-02 22:04 -0700
              Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-04 13:47 +0200
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-04 10:53 -0500
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-04 17:04 +0100
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-04 19:00 +0200
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-05 03:39 -0500
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-05 19:17 +0100
            Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-02 21:44 -1000
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-02 21:35 -1000
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-03 03:38 -0500
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-05 11:25 +1000
            Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-05 18:23 -0700
              Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-07 14:26 +1000
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-07 08:47 +0100
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-08 10:25 +1000
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-07 20:37 -0700
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-08 12:42 +0100
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? jason.songhurst@gmail.com - 2017-04-08 20:28 -0700
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Coos Haak <htrofhc@gmail.com> - 2017-04-09 13:47 +0200
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-09 08:36 -1000
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-09 14:48 +0200
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-10 10:31 +1000
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-10 09:29 +0100
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-10 11:57 +0200
      Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-03 03:43 +0200
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-02 21:53 -1000
  Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-02 21:31 +1000
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Coos Haak <htrofhc@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 15:12 +0200
      Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-03 10:46 +1000
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-03 03:31 +0200
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-02 19:14 -0700
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-02 21:55 -1000
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-04 11:06 +1000
            Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-04 12:54 +0100
              Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-04-04 16:27 +0000
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-04 19:23 +0100
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-07 22:04 -0700
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-02 14:21 -0700
  Why does the location of PAD move around? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 08:28 -0700
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-02 13:47 -0700
      Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-02 15:13 -0700
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-02 18:55 -0700

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