| This snapshot has been tested quite well for portability. The main |
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| thing missing before the release is an update to the documentation. |
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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 has a comprehensive |
| 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 and MacOS X |
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and should not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This |
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version has been tested successfully on the following platforms: |
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| alpha-dec-osf4.0d |
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| alpha-unknown-linux-gnu |
alpha-unknown-linux-gnu |
| hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu |
gcc-2.95.2 19991024 (release) |
| hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 |
gcc-2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) |
| i386-unknown-freebsd4.7 |
gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15) |
| i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 |
gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-5) |
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gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) |
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armv5l-unknown-linux-gnu |
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gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15) |
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broken: gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) |
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<http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31152> |
| i686-pc-linux-gnu |
i686-pc-linux-gnu |
| mips-dec-ultrix4.3 |
gcc-2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) |
| mipsel-pc-linux-gnu |
gcc-3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) |
| mips-sgi-irix6.5 |
gcc-3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13sarge1) |
| powerpc-apple-darwin5.4 |
ia64-hp-hpux11.23 |
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gcc-4.1.1 |
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broken: gcc-3.4.3 |
| powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu |
powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu |
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gcc-2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) |
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gcc-3.2.3 (Debian) |
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gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15) |
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gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-8) |
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gcc-4.0.3 20060128 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-8) |
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gcc-4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-23) |
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gcc-4.3.2 |
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powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu |
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gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-5) |
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gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) |
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sparc-sun-solaris2.10 |
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gcc-3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath) |
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gcc-4.0.2 |
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x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu |
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gcc-3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15) |
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gcc-3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-5) |
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gcc-4.0.0 |
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gcc-4.0.4 20060904 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.3-7) |
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gcc-4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) |
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gcc-4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-23) |
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gcc-4.2.0 |
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gcc-4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-3) |
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gcc-4.3.1 |
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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, |
To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). |
| Windows 95, and OS/2. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after |
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| 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 |
| 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@gnu.org. You have to subsribe to post there. |
| gforth-subscribe@chaossolutions.org@ChaosSolutions.org with: |
You can subscribe through |
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<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gforth>. The list is archived |
| subscribe GForth |
at <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/gforth/>. |
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| as the first and only line within the message body. Submit bug |
You can also report bugs through these channels, or you can report |
| reports through |
them through our bug database: |
| |
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| https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=addbug&group=gforth |
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) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2004,2006,2007,2008,2009 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/. |
