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1 : anton 1.65 Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
2 : anton 1.8 language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
3 : anton 1.54 features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a
4 : anton 1.77 decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it has a comprehensive
5 : anton 1.54 manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with
6 : anton 1.56 newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner
7 :     interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can
8 :     also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter. Gforth is
9 :     distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).
10 : anton 1.8
11 : anton 1.77 Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows and MacOS X
12 :     and should not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This
13 :     version has been tested successfully on the following platforms:
14 : pazsan 1.31
15 : anton 1.74 alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
16 :     gcc-2.95.2 19991024 (release)
17 :     gcc-2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
18 :     gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15)
19 :     gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-5)
20 :     gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
21 :     armv5l-unknown-linux-gnu
22 :     gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15)
23 :     broken: gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
24 :     <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31152>
25 :     i686-pc-linux-gnu
26 :     gcc-2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
27 :     gcc-3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
28 :     gcc-3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13sarge1)
29 :     ia64-hp-hpux11.23
30 : anton 1.75 gcc-4.1.1
31 : anton 1.74 broken: gcc-3.4.3
32 :     powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
33 :     gcc-2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
34 :     gcc-3.2.3 (Debian)
35 :     gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15)
36 :     gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-8)
37 :     gcc-4.0.3 20060128 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-8)
38 :     gcc-4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-23)
39 :     gcc-4.3.2
40 :     powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
41 :     gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-5)
42 :     gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
43 :     sparc-sun-solaris2.10
44 :     gcc-3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)
45 :     gcc-4.0.2
46 :     x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
47 :     gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15)
48 :     gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-5)
49 :     gcc-4.0.0
50 :     gcc-4.0.4 20060904 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.3-7)
51 :     gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
52 :     gcc-4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-23)
53 :     gcc-4.2.0
54 :     gcc-4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-3)
55 :     gcc-4.3.1
56 :     i386-apple-darwin9.4.0
57 :     x86_64-apple-darwin9.4.0
58 :     ppc-apple-darwin9.4.0
59 :     i686-pc-cygwin
60 :     gforth-ec: r8c, 4stack, misc, 8086
61 : anton 1.22
62 : anton 1.58 Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS
63 :     for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have
64 :     a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file. If you received
65 :     a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions.
66 :    
67 : anton 1.53 To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
68 : anton 1.10
69 : anton 1.42 You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/
70 :     and its mirrors or at
71 : anton 1.10
72 : anton 1.12 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/
73 : anton 1.10 or
74 : anton 1.12 ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/
75 : anton 1.10
76 : anton 1.42 The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some
77 : anton 1.14 popular platforms.
78 : anton 1.1
79 : anton 1.7 If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found
80 :     in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there,
81 :     it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are
82 : anton 1.72 doing. The most important task IMO is the foreign language interface
83 :     for C.
84 : anton 1.4
85 :     On popular request, here are the meanings of unusual file extensions:
86 :    
87 : pazsan 1.25 *.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within
88 : anton 1.26 gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...")
89 : pazsan 1.25 *.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>")
90 :     *.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load")
91 : anton 1.4 *.i C include files
92 :     *.ds documenation source
93 :     *TAGS etags files
94 : anton 1.1
95 : anton 1.11 A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are
96 :     not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in
97 :     the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview:
98 :    
99 :     Add-ons:
100 :     code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs
101 : crook 1.36 oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs
102 : anton 1.11
103 :     Utilities:
104 : anton 1.19 ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs
105 : anton 1.11
106 :     Games:
107 :     tt.fs sokoban.fs
108 :    
109 : anton 1.19 Test programs (for testing Forth systems):
110 : anton 1.29 test/*.fs
111 : anton 1.11
112 :     Benchmarks:
113 : anton 1.24 bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs
114 : anton 1.11
115 :     ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions:
116 : anton 1.72 compat/*.fs
117 : pazsan 1.27
118 : anton 1.30 For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup
119 :     comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a
120 : anton 1.78 mailing list: gforth@gnu.org. You have to subsribe to post there.
121 :     You can subscribe through
122 :     <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gforth>. The list is archived
123 :     at <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/gforth/>.
124 : pazsan 1.27
125 : anton 1.78 You can also report bugs through these channels, or you can report
126 :     them through our bug database:
127 : anton 1.11
128 : anton 1.47 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth
129 :    
130 : anton 1.1 - anton
131 : anton 1.6 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
132 : pazsan 1.18 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
133 : anton 1.49 -----
134 : anton 1.78 Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006,2007,2008,2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
135 : anton 1.49
136 :     This file is part of Gforth.
137 :    
138 :     Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
139 :     modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
140 : anton 1.67 as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
141 : anton 1.49 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
142 :    
143 :     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
144 :     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
145 :     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the
146 :     GNU General Public License for more details.
147 :    
148 :     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
149 : anton 1.67 along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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