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| From | Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update |
| Date | 2015-11-29 10:13 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <n3ej05$eh2$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <n3acur$8s6$1@dont-email.me> <880ce15f-f5fb-45b0-94f3-a5db59293dec@googlegroups.com> |
On 28/11/2015 18:07, peter.m.falth@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, 27 November 2015 21:06:04 UTC+1, Gerry wrote: >> Updated to include a set of Block Word set tests (many thanks to Steve >> Palmer for the contribution) and various other improvements. See >> http://soton.mpeforth.com/flag/anstests/index.html >> >> -- >> Gerry > > Gerry, first a great thanks for providing this test-suite. > > I found a problem. > You have changed COMPARE to STR= but you give a definition to S= > in the utilities file. STR= is used in 3 of the files so compilation stops > I don't quite know how this happened. It was a late change that didn't find its way into the GitHub master. I am a beginner with GitHub so I made a mistake somewhere. All occurrences of STR= have been changed to S= so the download is OK now. Sorry about that and many thanks for reporting it. > Then I found several problems in my Forth when running the Block tests. > This is due to the way I implement Blocks. I simply do a memory mapping > of the blockfile and have it all in memory. For this reason I can set > : BUFFER BLOCK ; and have no buffers at all. Any modification of a block > is handled by the operating system (Linux or Windows) and eventually > transferred to disk. > > For this reason I fail your tests when you UPDATE and then run EMPTY-BUFFERS > as the contents has already been written. > I need to think if I want to introduce a buffer to transfer each block thru > to pass your tests. I like the simplicity of the mapped file and it has > worked well for me for 20 years. > I've forwarded this on to the author of the tests and await his reply. I'll look into it in the meantime - I've never used blocks so can't promise a quick solution. Once again thanks. -- Gerry
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Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-27 20:06 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Aliaksei Chapyzhenka <alex.drom@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 22:19 -0800
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update peter.m.falth@gmail.com - 2015-11-28 10:07 -0800
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-29 10:13 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update "steve@srpalmer.me.uk" <steverpalmer27@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 03:47 -0800
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-29 12:41 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-29 12:41 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update peter.m.falth@gmail.com - 2015-11-29 08:41 -0800
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update peter.m.falth@gmail.com - 2015-11-29 10:47 -0800
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-29 20:29 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update peter.m.falth@gmail.com - 2015-11-29 14:44 -0800
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-30 01:24 +0100
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-30 09:35 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-30 18:04 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-30 21:28 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-30 22:59 +0100
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-12-01 12:29 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-12-02 10:08 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-12-05 15:57 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-30 09:49 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-30 18:16 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-30 21:28 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-30 10:25 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-29 13:14 -1000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update steverpalmer27@gmail.com - 2015-11-30 03:51 -0800
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update peter.m.falth@gmail.com - 2015-11-30 09:00 -0800
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-30 07:54 -1000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-30 18:25 +0000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-30 11:06 -1000
Re: Ann: ANS/FORTH 2012 test suite update "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-29 13:08 -1000
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