Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Peter Knaggs" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Offline compilation of Forth Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:50:40 -0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <5106a980.266061561@192.168.0.50> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8c7a470a0c16a8a8641affb1a9a6ce52"; logging-data="27805"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+82ipXk/WnJMaaaaihxGje" User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.13 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cdqcKj/IQg7xUv+x59fGySfzcvQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:19380 On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:19:56 -0000, Stephen Pelc wrote: > > MPE and Forth Inc worked together on a large Forth project, and > produced a set of proposals for cross-compiled Forths. The master > copies are usually on the Forth Inc web site. They were written by > Elizabeth Rather of Forth Inc. My copies are on the MPE web site: > http://www.mpeforth.com/arena/XCtext5.PDF > http://www.mpeforth.com/arena/XCapp5.PDF Yet, when we attempted to adopt these documents into the Forth 200x standard both MPE and Forth Inc., said "no, no, no, we would like to rewrite it first". Thus the proposed Forth 2012 document contains only a passing reference to cross-compiling, which, true be told, could easily be removed without any detrimental affect. (2.1 Definitions of terms, A.3.4 The Forth text interpreter and A.5 Compliance and labeling.) -- Peter Knaggs