| This is the current state (alpha) of gforth. This is not a |
Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth |
| distribution for the general public, since it is not yet mature |
language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice |
| enough. There is no warranty of any kind; this program is |
features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a |
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decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a |
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manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with |
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newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner |
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interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can |
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also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter. Gforth is |
| distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). |
distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING). |
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| Read INSTALL for installation instructions. Mail us |
Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows, MacOS X, |
| (anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at,paysan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) if |
OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems |
| you have problems. |
supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the |
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following platforms: |
| To start the system just say `gforth'. This gives you a pretty barren |
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| system. `gforth startup.fs' gives you most ANSI wordsets. If you miss |
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu |
| a word, just grep for it in *.fs. |
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Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS |
| If you want to work on gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found in |
for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have |
| ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, it's |
a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file. If you received |
| ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are doing. The |
a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions. |
| most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words (musts before |
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| the alpha release), the documentation and the foreign language |
To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
| interface for C. |
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You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ |
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and its mirrors or at |
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http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/ |
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or |
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ftp://ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/forth/gforth/ |
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The latter site also contains binary distributions of Gforth for some |
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popular platforms. |
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If you want to work on Gforth, mail me. Tasks to be done can be found |
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in ToDo; but if you would like to do something not mentioned there, |
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it's ok, too. In any case, we would like to hear what you are |
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doing. The most important tasks IMO are the missing ANS Forth words, |
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the documentation and the foreign language interface 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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| *.fs Forth stream source file |
*.fs Forth stream source file (include with "include <file>" from within |
| *.fi Forth image files |
gforth, or start with "gforth <file1> <file2> ...") |
| *.fb Forth blocks file |
*.fi Forth image files (start with "gforth -i <image file>") |
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*.fb Forth blocks file (load with "use <block file> 1 load") |
| *.i C include files |
*.i C include files |
| *.ds documenation source |
*.ds documenation source |
| *TAGS etags files |
*TAGS etags files |
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A number of Forth source files are included in this package that are |
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not necessary for building Gforth. Not all of them are mentioned in |
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the rest of the documentation, so here's a short overview: |
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Add-ons: |
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code.fs random.fs more.fs ansi.fs colorize.fs |
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oof.fs oofsampl.fs objects.fs blocked.fb tasker.fs |
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Utilities: |
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ans-report.fs etags.fs glosgen.fs filedump.fs |
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Games: |
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tt.fs sokoban.fs |
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Test programs (for testing Forth systems): |
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test/*.fs |
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Benchmarks: |
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bubble.fs siev.fs matrix.fs fib.fs |
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ANS Forth implementations of Gforth extensions: |
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compat/*.fs other.fs |
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For discussions about Gforth, use the Usenet newsgroup |
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comp.lang.forth. If you prefer not to post on Usenet, there is also a |
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mailing list: GForth@ChaosSolutions.org. To subscribe, send a mail to |
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gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org with: |
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subscribe GForth |
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as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug |
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reports through |
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https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth |
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(whether you post them or not). |
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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 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 2 |
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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, write to the Free Software |
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. |
