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| 1 : | anton | 1.20 | |
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| 3 : | anton | 1.28 | User-visible changes between 0.6.2 and 0.6.9 (up to 2008-07-15): |
| 4 : | anton | 1.20 | |
| 5 : | anton | 1.28 | Requirements: |
| 6 : | At run-time requires libtool and gcc (for libcc C interface) and | ||
| 7 : | gdb (for disassembler (SEE) on some platforms). | ||
| 8 : | anton | 1.20 | Installation: |
| 9 : | support for DESTDIR, POST_INSTALL, INSTALL_SCRIPT | ||
| 10 : | anton | 1.28 | automatic performance tuning on building (--enable-force-reg unnecessary) |
| 11 : | report performance and functionality problems at end of "make" | ||
| 12 : | autogen.sh now exists | ||
| 13 : | License: | ||
| 14 : | Changed to GPLv3 | ||
| 15 : | anton | 1.20 | Bug fixes |
| 16 : | anton | 1.22 | Now works with address-space randomization. |
| 17 : | anton | 1.20 | The single-step debugger works again in some engines. |
| 18 : | anton | 1.22 | Many others. |
| 19 : | anton | 1.20 | Ports: |
| 20 : | AMD64, ARM, IA-64 (Itanium): better performance | ||
| 21 : | anton | 1.22 | PPC: disassembler and assembler (32-bit) |
| 22 : | anton | 1.28 | Gforth EC: R8C, Lego NXT (not distributed; complete?) |
| 23 : | MacOS X: better support | ||
| 24 : | anton | 1.22 | Invocation: |
| 25 : | New flags --ignore-async-signals, --vm-commit (default overcommit) | ||
| 26 : | anton | 1.28 | --print-sequences |
| 27 : | anton | 1.20 | Forth 200x: |
| 28 : | extension queries (produce true for all implemented extensions) | ||
| 29 : | REQUIRED etc. (not new) | ||
| 30 : | [DEFINED] and [UNDEFINED] | ||
| 31 : | PARSE-NAME (new name) | ||
| 32 : | deferred words (new: DEFER@ DEFER! ACTION-OF) | ||
| 33 : | anton | 1.24 | X:structures: +FIELD FIELD: FFIELD: CFIELD: etc. |
| 34 : | anton | 1.25 | X:ekeys: new: EKEY>FKEY K-SHIFT-MASK K-CTRL-MASK K-ALT-MASK K-F1...K-F12 |
| 35 : | anton | 1.28 | Unicode support (currently supports only uniform encoding): |
| 36 : | anton | 1.20 | added xchars words for dealing with variable-width multi-byte characters |
| 37 : | provide 8bit (ISO Latin 1) and UTF-8 support for xchars | ||
| 38 : | Number prefixes: | ||
| 39 : | 0x is a hex prefix: 0xff and 0XfF now produces (decimal) 255 | ||
| 40 : | # is a decimal prefix: #10 now produces (decimal) 10 | ||
| 41 : | anton | 1.24 | Signs after the number prefix are now accepted, e.g, #-50. |
| 42 : | anton | 1.20 | ' now only handles a single (x)char: 'ab is no longer accepted, |
| 43 : | 'a' now produces (decimal) 97 | ||
| 44 : | New words: | ||
| 45 : | anton | 1.28 | \C C-FUNCTION C-LIBRARY END-C-LIBRARY C-LIBRARY-NAME (libcc C interface) |
| 46 : | LIB-ERROR (complements OPEN-LIB) | ||
| 47 : | anton | 1.22 | OUTFILE-EXECUTE INFILE-EXECUTE BASE-EXECUTE (limited change of global state) |
| 48 : | 16-bit and 32-bit memory acces: UW@ UL@ SW@ SL@ W! L! W@ L@ /W /L | ||
| 49 : | NEXT-ARG SHIFT-ARGS (OS command-line argument processing) | ||
| 50 : | NOTHROW (for backtrace control) | ||
| 51 : | anton | 1.20 | FTRUNC FMOD (undocumented) |
| 52 : | anton | 1.24 | SEE-CODE SEE-CODE-RANGE (show generated dynamic native code) |
| 53 : | anton | 1.22 | Improvements/changes of existing words: |
| 54 : | anton | 1.25 | S\", .\" now support \l, \m, \z, and limits hex and octal character specs. |
| 55 : | OPEN-FILE with W/O no longer creates or truncates files (no compat. file) | ||
| 56 : | anton | 1.28 | OPEN-LIB now understands ~ at the start, like OPEN-FILE. |
| 57 : | anton | 1.22 | TRY...ENDTRY changed significantly, compatibility files available (see docs). |
| 58 : | The disassembler (DISCODE) can now use gdb to disassemble code | ||
| 59 : | Uninitialized defered words now give a warning when executed | ||
| 60 : | Division is floored (disable with "configure --enable-force-cdiv") | ||
| 61 : | Gforth (not gforth-fast) reports division by zero and overflow on division | ||
| 62 : | on all platforms. | ||
| 63 : | anton | 1.20 | Newly documented words: |
| 64 : | S>NUMBER? S>UNUMBER? | ||
| 65 : | anton | 1.25 | EKEY keypress names: K-LEFT K-RIGHT K-UP K-DOWN K-HOME K-END K-PRIOR |
| 66 : | K-NEXT K-INSERT K-DELETE | ||
| 67 : | anton | 1.20 | CLEARSTACKS |
| 68 : | anton | 1.22 | FORM |
| 69 : | anton | 1.20 | Environment variable GFORTHSYSTEMPREFIX (used by word SYSTEM and friends) |
| 70 : | C interface: | ||
| 71 : | exported symbols now start with "gforth_" (for referencing them from C code) | ||
| 72 : | anton | 1.28 | libcc C function call interface (requires libtool and gcc at run-time) |
| 73 : | alternative: undocumented libffi-based interface | ||
| 74 : | anton | 1.20 | Libraries: |
| 75 : | depth-changes.fs: report stack depth changes during interpretation | ||
| 76 : | anton | 1.22 | ans-report.fs now reports CfV extensions |
| 77 : | anton | 1.20 | fsl-util.4th: FSL support files (undocumented) |
| 78 : | regexp.fs for regular expressions (undocumented) | ||
| 79 : | complex.fs for complex numbers (undocumented) | ||
| 80 : | fft.fs for Fast Fourier Transform (undocumented) | ||
| 81 : | wf.fs, a Wiki implementation (undocumented) | ||
| 82 : | httpd.fs, a web server (undocumented) | ||
| 83 : | status.fs, show interpreter status in separate xterm (undocumented) | ||
| 84 : | profile.fs for profiling (undocumented, incomplete) | ||
| 85 : | anton | 1.22 | endtry-iferror.fs, recover-endtry.fs to ease the TRY change transition |
| 86 : | anton | 1.24 | test/tester.fs: Now works with FP numbers (undocumented) |
| 87 : | test/ttester.fs: Version of tester.fs with improved interface (T{...}T). | ||
| 88 : | anton | 1.20 | compat library: |
| 89 : | compat/execute-parsing.fs | ||
| 90 : | Speed improvements: | ||
| 91 : | anton | 1.28 | automatic performance tuning on building |
| 92 : | anton | 1.20 | static stack caching (good speedup on PPC) |
| 93 : | anton | 1.22 | mixed-precision division is now faster |
| 94 : | anton | 1.20 | support for int128 types on AMD64 |
| 95 : | workarounds for gcc performance bugs (in particular, PR 15242) | ||
| 96 : | anton | 1.24 | branch target alignment (good speedup on Alpha). |
| 97 : | anton | 1.20 | |
| 98 : | |||
| 99 : | anton | 1.18 | User-visible changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2: |
| 100 : | |||
| 101 : | anton | 1.19 | Bug fixes (in particular, gforth-0.6.2 compiles with gcc-3.3) |
| 102 : | New words: LATEST, LATESTXT (LASTXT deprecated) | ||
| 103 : | Operating environment: Added optional support for a C interface built | ||
| 104 : | on the ffcall libraries (more portable and powerful than the old | ||
| 105 : | one, but still not documented). To use it, the ffcall libraries | ||
| 106 : | have to be installed before building Gforth (see INSTALL). | ||
| 107 : | Miscellaneous: Gforth-fast now uses static superinstructions (some | ||
| 108 : | speedup on some platforms); generally this is transparent (apart | ||
| 109 : | from the speedup), but there are lots of command-line options for | ||
| 110 : | controlling the static superinstruction generation. | ||
| 111 : | anton | 1.18 | |
| 112 : | |||
| 113 : | anton | 1.16 | User-visible changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: |
| 114 : | |||
| 115 : | Bug fixes (installation on big-endian machines sometimes did not work) | ||
| 116 : | |||
| 117 : | |||
| 118 : | anton | 1.9 | User-visible changes between 0.5.0 and 0.6.0: |
| 119 : | |||
| 120 : | anton | 1.14 | Changes in behaviour: |
| 121 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 122 : | anton | 1.14 | S": interpreted use now ALLOCATEs the string (they live until BYE). |
| 123 : | Long word names (512MB on 32-bit systems) are now supported (change to | ||
| 124 : | the header format). | ||
| 125 : | New threaded code execution method: primitive-centric (allows the | ||
| 126 : | following), hybrid direct/indirect threaded (easier portability), | ||
| 127 : | with dynamic superinstructions (typical speedup on Athlon: factor | ||
| 128 : | 2). New engine gforth-itc for dealing with some potential | ||
| 129 : | anton | 1.16 | backwards-compatibility problems (see "Direct or Indirect Threaded?" |
| 130 : | in the manual). | ||
| 131 : | anton | 1.14 | |
| 132 : | Operating environment: | ||
| 133 : | |||
| 134 : | Default dictionary size is now 4MB. | ||
| 135 : | anton | 1.10 | Large file support on OSs that support them (i.e., files with more |
| 136 : | than 2GB on 32-bit machines). | ||
| 137 : | anton | 1.15 | Gforth can now deal well with broken pipes in most situations. |
| 138 : | anton | 1.10 | vi tags files can be built with tags.fs (usage like etags.fs). |
| 139 : | anton | 1.14 | gforth.el mostly rewritten. |
| 140 : | New image file format. | ||
| 141 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 142 : | anton | 1.14 | New words: |
| 143 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 144 : | anton | 1.14 | Keyboard input: EDIT-LINE K-PRIOR K-NEXT K-DELETE |
| 145 : | File input: SLURP-FILE SLURP-FID | ||
| 146 : | Programming tools: ID. .ID WORDLIST-WORDS SIMPLE-SEE | ||
| 147 : | Conditional execution: [DEFINED] [UNDEFINED] | ||
| 148 : | anton | 1.17 | Defining Words: CONST-DOES> ]] |
| 149 : | anton | 1.14 | Input stream: PARSE-WORD EXECUTE-PARSING EXECUTE-PARSING-FILE |
| 150 : | String comparison: STR= STR< STRING-PREFIX? | ||
| 151 : | String literals: S\" .\" \"-PARSE | ||
| 152 : | Floating point output: F.RDP F>STR-RDP F>BUF-RDP | ||
| 153 : | anton | 1.9 | |
| 154 : | anton | 1.14 | Miscellaneous: |
| 155 : | anton | 1.9 | |
| 156 : | Generalized prims2x.fs into Vmgen (see README.vmgen etc.); used the | ||
| 157 : | new capabilities in prims (e.g., automatic handling of the return | ||
| 158 : | stack and instruction stream). | ||
| 159 : | anton | 1.10 | |
| 160 : | anton | 1.9 | |
| 161 : | anton | 1.8 | User-visible changes between 0.4.0 and 0.5.0: |
| 162 : | |||
| 163 : | Changes in behaviour: | ||
| 164 : | |||
| 165 : | There are now two engines: the fast engine (gforth-fast) is at least | ||
| 166 : | as fast as gforth in earlier releases; the debugging engine (gforth) | ||
| 167 : | supports precise backtracing for signals (e.g., illegal memory | ||
| 168 : | access), but is slower by a factor of 1-2. | ||
| 169 : | Block files now start at block 0 by default (instead of block 1). If | ||
| 170 : | you have block files around, prepend 1024 bytes to convert them, or | ||
| 171 : | do a "1 OFFSET !" to establish the old behaviour. | ||
| 172 : | Gforth now does not translate newlines to LFs on reading. Instead, | ||
| 173 : | READ-LINE now interprets LF, CR, and CRLF as newlines. Newlines on | ||
| 174 : | output are in the OSs favourite format. | ||
| 175 : | SEE now disassembles primitives (or hex-DUMPs the code if no | ||
| 176 : | disassembler is available). | ||
| 177 : | >HEAD (aka >NAME) now returns 0 (instead of the nt of ???) on failure. | ||
| 178 : | Syntax of prim changed: stack effects are now surrounded by | ||
| 179 : | parentheses, tabs are insignificant. | ||
| 180 : | |||
| 181 : | Operating environment: | ||
| 182 : | |||
| 183 : | Gforth now produces a backtrace when catching an exception. | ||
| 184 : | On platforms supporting the Unix 98 SA_SIGINFO semantics, you get more | ||
| 185 : | precise error reports for SIGSEGV and SIGFPE (e.g., "stack | ||
| 186 : | underflow" instead of "Invalid memory address"). | ||
| 187 : | Gforth now produces exit code 1 if there is an error (i.e., an | ||
| 188 : | uncaught THROW) in batch processing. | ||
| 189 : | You can use "gforthmi --application ..." to build an image that | ||
| 190 : | processes the whole command-line when invoked directly (instead of | ||
| 191 : | through gforth -i). | ||
| 192 : | |||
| 193 : | Ports: | ||
| 194 : | |||
| 195 : | AIX. | ||
| 196 : | 20% speedup on 604e under powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, | ||
| 197 : | 19%-29% speedup on Celeron with gcc-2.95. | ||
| 198 : | |||
| 199 : | New words: | ||
| 200 : | |||
| 201 : | Missing ANS Forth words: EKEY EKEY? EKEY>CHAR | ||
| 202 : | Timing words: CPUTIME UTIME | ||
| 203 : | Vector arithmetic: V* FAXPY | ||
| 204 : | FP comparison: F~ABS F~REL | ||
| 205 : | Deferred words: <IS> [IS] | ||
| 206 : | Nested number output: <<# #>> | ||
| 207 : | Exception handling: TRY RECOVER ENDTRY | ||
| 208 : | Directory handling: OPEN-DIR READ-DIR CLOSE-DIR FILENAME-MATCH | ||
| 209 : | Other: ]L PUSH-ORDER | ||
| 210 : | |||
| 211 : | Miscellaneous: | ||
| 212 : | |||
| 213 : | Significant extensions to the manual (added an introduction, among | ||
| 214 : | other things), many of them due to a new team member: Neal Crook. | ||
| 215 : | Added assemblers and disassemblers for 386, Alpha, MIPS (thanks to | ||
| 216 : | contributions by Andrew McKewan, Bernd Thallner, and Christian | ||
| 217 : | Pirker). Contributions of assemblers and disassemblers for other | ||
| 218 : | architectures are welcome. | ||
| 219 : | |||
| 220 : | |||
| 221 : | anton | 1.6 | User-visible changes between 0.3.0 and 0.4.0: |
| 222 : | |||
| 223 : | Operating environment: | ||
| 224 : | |||
| 225 : | Path handling: "." at the start of the path represents the directory | ||
| 226 : | the nearest enclosing file resides in (if there is none: the working | ||
| 227 : | directory). "~+" indicates the working directory. The default path | ||
| 228 : | now has "." in front. | ||
| 229 : | gforth and gforthmi is now more GNU standards compliant (wrt | ||
| 230 : | command-line options). | ||
| 231 : | New command-line-option: --die-on-signal | ||
| 232 : | Errors are now directed to stderr. | ||
| 233 : | Stdout is now unbuffered, if it is a tty. | ||
| 234 : | User input device redirection (for filters) is now possible. | ||
| 235 : | |||
| 236 : | Ports: | ||
| 237 : | |||
| 238 : | Now runs on IRIX (and other MIPS-based systems without linker-flag -d). | ||
| 239 : | Direct threading now works on PowerPC (20% speedup on 604e). | ||
| 240 : | Better support for m68k (thanks to Andreas Schwab and Jorge Acereda). | ||
| 241 : | It is possible to create executables that contain the image (for | ||
| 242 : | non-OS systems). | ||
| 243 : | pazsan | 1.7 | |
| 244 : | Added a lot of embedded control (EC) stuff. Supported controllers and | ||
| 245 : | small CPUs are Siemens C16x, 8086, 6502, Mixed-Mode's FPGA MISC, Bernd Paysan's | ||
| 246 : | 4stack processor. Not finished: ShBoom alias PSC1000, H8, AVR. | ||
| 247 : | anton | 1.6 | |
| 248 : | New, changed, and removed words: | ||
| 249 : | |||
| 250 : | Renamed F0 to FP0 (avoids unexpected behaviour in hex), added aliases | ||
| 251 : | SP0, RP0, LP0 (recommended for future use) for S0, R0, L0. | ||
| 252 : | Renamed PARSE-WORD into SWORD (PARSE-WORD is used with the meaning of | ||
| 253 : | NAME in OpenBoot and dpans6 A.6.2.2008) | ||
| 254 : | Added FPICK (suggested by Julian Noble). | ||
| 255 : | Added EXCEPTION. | ||
| 256 : | S" gforth" ENVIRONMENT? now produces the version-string. | ||
| 257 : | Changed representation of types in struct package, and correspondingly | ||
| 258 : | changed names. | ||
| 259 : | |||
| 260 : | Miscellaneous: | ||
| 261 : | |||
| 262 : | Plain text documentation is now available in doc/gforth.txt. | ||
| 263 : | Documentation improvements. | ||
| 264 : | Wordlist structure changed. | ||
| 265 : | Added mini-oof. | ||
| 266 : | Reorganized files: added directories and reorganized many files into | ||
| 267 : | them; renamed files into 8.3 format to work with completely broken | ||
| 268 : | systems (but there are again some files that won't work there). | ||
| 269 : | Bug fixes. | ||
| 270 : | Various changes without log information only known as mega-patches. | ||
| 271 : | pazsan | 1.7 | Cross compiler now also supports compilation only for undefined or forward |
| 272 : | referenced words. Plugins to support some native code generation | ||
| 273 : | (for PSC1000). | ||
| 274 : | anton | 1.6 | More files in the compat library. |
| 275 : | |||
| 276 : | |||
| 277 : | |||
| 278 : | anton | 1.5 | User-visible changes between 0.2.1 and 0.3.0: |
| 279 : | |||
| 280 : | Stack overflow detection by memory protection on most systems | ||
| 281 : | (allocation with mmap). | ||
| 282 : | gforth.fi is now fully relocatable. | ||
| 283 : | fully relocatable images are now easier to create. | ||
| 284 : | added primitives K and UNDER+. | ||
| 285 : | Win32 support. | ||
| 286 : | Improved support for embedded controllers and other deprived environments. | ||
| 287 : | some bug fixes. | ||
| 288 : | added concept index; other documentation improvements. | ||
| 289 : | |||
| 290 : | anton | 1.6 | |
| 291 : | |||
| 292 : | anton | 1.5 | User-visible changes between 0.2.0 and 0.2.1: |
| 293 : | anton | 1.4 | |
| 294 : | Bug fixes | ||
| 295 : | |||
| 296 : | anton | 1.6 | |
| 297 : | |||
| 298 : | anton | 1.5 | User-visible changes between 0.1beta and 0.2.0: |
| 299 : | anton | 1.1 | |
| 300 : | anton | 1.3 | Portability and Installation: |
| 301 : | |||
| 302 : | anton | 1.1 | Support architectures with buggy long longs (alpha-dec-osf). |
| 303 : | anton | 1.3 | Better support for DOS and other non-Unix systems. |
| 304 : | anton | 1.1 | Size changes through the command line are passed to the image (and |
| 305 : | saved with savesystem); the preamble specifies an interpreter and is | ||
| 306 : | propagated by save-system. | ||
| 307 : | anton | 1.3 | |
| 308 : | Tools: | ||
| 309 : | |||
| 310 : | Improved etags support. | ||
| 311 : | more.fs allows output paging. | ||
| 312 : | Added compat/ directory containing ANS implementations of Gforth features. | ||
| 313 : | Added tiny multitasker (tasker.fs). | ||
| 314 : | Added two alternatives for object-oriented programming: oof.fs, objects.fs. | ||
| 315 : | Added ans-report.fs (reports which words are used from which wordset). | ||
| 316 : | |||
| 317 : | New words: | ||
| 318 : | |||
| 319 : | Changed POPEN and PCLOSE to OPEN-PIPE and CLOSE-PIPE. | ||
| 320 : | Added FORM, ROWS, and COLS. | ||
| 321 : | added primitives EMIT-FILE, STDOUT, STDERR. | ||
| 322 : | Added TABLEs (case-sensitive wordlists). | ||
| 323 : | added POSTPONE,. | ||
| 324 : | Added the ability to combine arbitrary interpretation and compilation | ||
| 325 : | semantics (INTERPRET/COMPILE:); state-smart words were generally | ||
| 326 : | rewritten to use that mechanism. | ||
| 327 : | |||
| 328 : | Changes to existing words: | ||
| 329 : | |||
| 330 : | EMIT and TYPE now work through file words (and are redirectable). | ||
| 331 : | anton | 1.1 | HEADER now stores the compilation wordlist in the header and REVEAL |
| 332 : | reveals into that wordlist. | ||
| 333 : | anton | 1.3 | changed behaviour of SYSTEM (no longer returns wretval, but puts it in |
| 334 : | $?) added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ). | ||
| 335 : | anton | 1.1 | ' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words. |
| 336 : | anton | 1.3 | |
| 337 : | anton | 1.12 | ----- |
| 338 : | anton | 1.26 | Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| 339 : | anton | 1.12 | |
| 340 : | This file is part of Gforth. | ||
| 341 : | |||
| 342 : | Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or | ||
| 343 : | modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License | ||
| 344 : | anton | 1.27 | as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 |
| 345 : | anton | 1.12 | of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
| 346 : | |||
| 347 : | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | ||
| 348 : | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | ||
| 349 : | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the | ||
| 350 : | GNU General Public License for more details. | ||
| 351 : | |||
| 352 : | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | ||
| 353 : | anton | 1.27 | along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. |
| 354 : | anton | 1.12 | |
| 355 : | anton | 1.6 | |
| 356 : | % Local Variables: | ||
| 357 : | % fill-prefix: " " |
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