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This snapshot is mainly intended as a Vmgen release. The Gforth part |
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has known bugs, and likely has portability problems (which Vmgen |
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inherits, of course) on anything but 386 and Alpha platforms. A |
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full-blown and portable release will be released Real Soon Now:-). |
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Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth |
Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth |
language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice |
language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice |
features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals |
features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a |
facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional |
decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a |
implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct |
manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with |
threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license |
newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner |
(see COPYING). |
interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can |
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also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter. Gforth is |
Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to |
distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). |
port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested |
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successfully on the following platforms: |
Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows, MacOS X, |
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OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems |
i686-pc-linux-gnu |
supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the |
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following platforms: |
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i386-unknown-linux-gnu |
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x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu |
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i386-apple-darwin9.4.0 |
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x86_64-apple-darwin9.4.0 |
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ppc-apple-darwin9.4.0 |
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i686-pc-cygwin |
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gforth-ec: r8c, 4stack, misc, 8086 |
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Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS |
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for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have |
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a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file. If you received |
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a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions. |
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Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, |
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Windows 95, and OS/2. Mail bug-gforth@gnu.org if you have problems. |
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To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
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You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ |
You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ |
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If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
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, |
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 |
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, |
doing. The most important task IMO is the foreign language interface |
the documentation and the foreign language interface for C. |
for C. |
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On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: |
On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions: |
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bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs |
bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs |
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ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: |
ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: |
compat/*.fs other.fs |
compat/*.fs |
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For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup |
For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup |
comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a |
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 |
mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to |
gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with: |
gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org with: |
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subscribe GForth |
subscribe GForth |
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as the first and only line within the message body. Send bug reports |
as the first and only line within the message body. You can also |
to bug-gforth@gnu.org (whether you post them or not). |
report bugs through these channels, or you can report them through our |
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bug database: |
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https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth |
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- anton |
- anton |
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at |
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at |
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
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Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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This file is part of Gforth. |
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Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License |
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as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 |
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of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the |
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GNU General Public License for more details. |
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. |