--- gforth/README 2000/09/23 18:20:18 1.42 +++ gforth/README 2008/10/23 14:21:25 1.73 @@ -1,26 +1,31 @@ Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice -features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals -facility, and it even has (the beginnings of) a manual. Gforth employs -traditional implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is -indirect or direct threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU -General Public license (see COPYING). - -Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to -port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested -successfully on the following platforms: - -checking host system type... alpha-dec-osf4.0d -checking host system type... alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu -checking host system type... i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 -checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu -checking host system type... mips-dec-ultrix4.3 -checking host system type... powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu -checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 -checking host system type... sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 +features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a +decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a +manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with +newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner +interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can +also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter. Gforth is +distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). + +Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows, MacOS X, +OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems +supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the +following platforms: + + i386-unknown-linux-gnu + x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu + i386-apple-darwin9.4.0 + x86_64-apple-darwin9.4.0 + ppc-apple-darwin9.4.0 + i686-pc-cygwin + gforth-ec: r8c, 4stack, misc, 8086 + +Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS +for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have +a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file. If you received +a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions. -Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, -Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ @@ -36,8 +41,8 @@ popular platforms. If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are -doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words, -the documentation and the foreign language interface for C. +doing. The most important task IMO is the foreign language interface +for C. On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: @@ -70,19 +75,38 @@ Benchmarks: bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: -compat/*.fs other.fs +compat/*.fs For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to -MDaemon@ChaosSolutions.org with: +gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org with: subscribe GForth -as the first and only line within the message body. Send bug reports -to bug-gforth@gnu.org (whether you post them or not). +as the first and only line within the message body. You can also +report bugs through these channels, or you can report them through our +bug database: +https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth - anton anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html +----- +Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +This file is part of Gforth. + +Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or +modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License +as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 +of the License, or (at your option) any later version. + +This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.