gforth: gforth/stuff.fs

-Added my name to the ToDo file under documentation
-Glossed the oof files
-Minor glossary additions elsewhere
-Another set of changes to gforth.ds; mainly the addition of material
 to the introductory chapter. Also, re-organised stuff in the oof
 sections and made a typo pass over a few other bits.

\ miscelleneous words

\ Copyright (C) 1996,1997,1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

\ This file is part of Gforth.

\ Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
\ modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
\ as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
\ of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

\ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
\ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
\ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
\ GNU General Public License for more details.

\ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
\ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
\ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


' require alias needs ( ... "name" -- ... ) \ gforth
\G an alias for @code{require}; exists on other systems (e.g., Win32Forth).
\ needs is an F-PC name. we will probably switch to 'needs' in the future

\ a little more compiler security

\ currently not used by Gforth, but maybe by add-ons e.g., the 486asm
AUser CSP

: !CSP ( -- )
    sp@ csp ! ;

: ?CSP ( -- )
    sp@ csp @ <> -22 and throw ;

\ DMIN and DMAX

: dmin ( d1 d2 -- d ) \ double
    2over 2over d> IF  2swap  THEN 2drop ;

: dmax ( d1 d2 -- d ) \ double
    2over 2over d< IF  2swap  THEN 2drop ;

\ shell commands

0 Value $? ( -- n ) \ gforth dollar-question
\G VALUE: The exit status returned by the most recently executed
\G @code{system} command.

: system ( addr u -- ) \ gforth
\G Pass the string specified by c-addr, u to the host operating system
\G for execution in a sub-shell.
    (system) throw TO $? ;

: sh ( "..." -- ) \ gforth
\G Parse a string and use @code{system} to pass it to the host
\G operating system for execution in a sub-shell.
    '# parse cr system ;

\ stuff

: ]L ( compilation: n -- ; run-time: -- n ) \ gforth
    \G equivalent to @code{] literal}
    ] postpone literal ;

: in-dictionary? ( x -- f )
    forthstart dictionary-end within ;

: in-return-stack? ( addr -- f )
    rp0 @ swap - [ forthstart 6 cells + ]L @ u< ;

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