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Re: ANS Forth test programs

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: ANS Forth test programs
Date 2014-08-22 12:33 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2014Aug22.143345@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) writes:
>On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:20:51 GMT, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
>(Anton Ertl) wrote:
>
>>>MPE will update the five or six VFX Forths to match the standard for
>>>v4.7, but in this case the rules of the standard are not desirable. 
>>>Setting a-addr2 to some error code is much more useful IMHO.
>>
>>Why?  We have ior for the error code.
>
>On most processors we have to do
>  ?DUP IF ... THEN
>which is nasty bot in terms of stack effect an of code
>generation, whereas
>  IF ... THEN
>is cleaner.

Could you give a more complete example?  I still fail to see how an
error code for a-addr2 would help.  Also, how is that dependent on the
processor?

- anton
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ANS Forth test programs Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-08-03 23:34 +0100
  Re: ANS Forth test programs mhx@iae.nl - 2014-08-03 22:33 -0700
    Re: ANS Forth test programs Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-08-04 08:47 +0100
      Re: ANS Forth test programs "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-08-04 05:10 -0400
        Re: ANS Forth test programs Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-08-05 17:33 +0100
      Re: ANS Forth test programs stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-08-21 16:01 +0000
        Re: ANS Forth test programs anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-08-21 16:20 +0000
          Re: ANS Forth test programs stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-08-21 21:47 +0000
            Re: ANS Forth test programs anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-08-22 12:33 +0000
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            Re: ANS Forth test programs Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-08-22 17:11 +0100
          Re: ANS Forth test programs anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-08-22 12:47 +0000
    Re: ANS Forth test programs Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-08-04 14:26 +0200
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        Re: ANS Forth test programs hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-08-05 20:06 -0700
          Re: ANS Forth test programs "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-08-06 16:43 -0400
          Re: ANS Forth test programs Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-08-07 10:23 +0100
            Re: ANS Forth test programs hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-08-07 18:29 -0700
              Re: ANS Forth test programs "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-08-07 23:28 -0700
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                Re: ANS Forth test programs hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-08-08 19:54 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-08-08 16:27 +0000
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 10:47 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-08-08 22:34 +0200
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                Re: ANS Forth test programs hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-08-08 23:59 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2014-08-09 01:35 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-08-09 04:41 -0500
                Re: ANS Forth test programs hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-08-09 17:53 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-08-10 03:25 -0500
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2014-08-10 03:19 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Mikael Nordman <oh2aun@gmail.com> - 2014-08-10 05:28 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 22:43 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-08-13 09:46 +0000
                Re: ANS Forth test programs hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-08-13 21:17 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-08-14 10:24 +0000
                Re: ANS Forth test programs "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-08-14 12:10 +0100
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2014-08-14 06:02 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-08-14 23:48 +0000
                Re: ANS Forth test programs hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-08-14 20:06 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-08-15 09:13 +0000
                Re: ANS Forth test programs hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-08-15 21:07 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-08-16 02:22 -0500
                Re: ANS Forth test programs "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-08-16 04:43 -0400
                Re: ANS Forth test programs stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-08-16 20:37 +0000
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                Re: ANS Forth test programs "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-08-13 10:43 +0100
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                Re: ANS Forth test programs anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-08-09 11:09 +0000
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-08-09 13:34 +0200
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-08-09 21:45 +0200
                Re: ANS Forth test programs hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-08-08 13:39 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-08-10 03:21 +0100
                Re: ANS Forth test programs "Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> - 2014-08-08 10:34 -0400
              Re: ANS Forth test programs Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-08-08 10:18 +0100
                Re: ANS Forth test programs hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-08-08 12:48 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-08-08 21:46 +0100
                Re: ANS Forth test programs hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-08-08 14:14 -0700
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-08-08 23:06 +0100
                Re: ANS Forth test programs Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-08-09 00:40 +0200
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