| 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 performance: its |
| (see COPYING). |
inner innerpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but |
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you can also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter. |
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Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license (see |
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COPYING). |
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| Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to |
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 |
port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested |
| successfully on the following platforms: |
successfully on the following platforms: |
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| alpha-dec-osf4.0d |
alpha-dec-osf4.0d |
| alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu |
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| alpha-unknown-linux-gnu |
alpha-unknown-linux-gnu |
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alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu |
| hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu |
hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu |
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hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00 |
| hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 |
hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 |
| i386-unknown-freebsd5.0 |
i386-unknown-freebsd5.1 |
| i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 |
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| i686-pc-cygwin |
i686-pc-cygwin |
| i686-pc-linux-gnu |
i686-pc-linux-gnu |
| mips-dec-ultrix4.3 |
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| mipsel-pc-linux-gnu |
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| mips-sgi-irix6.5 |
mips-sgi-irix6.5 |
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mipsel-pc-linux-gnu |
| powerpc-apple-darwin5.4 |
powerpc-apple-darwin5.4 |
| powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu |
powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu |
| sparc-sun-solaris2.7 |
sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 |
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sparc-unknown-linux-gnu |
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| Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, |
Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, |
| Windows 95, and OS/2. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after |
Windows 95, and OS/2, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have a binary package. |
| 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/ |
| and its mirrors or at |
and its mirrors or at |
