--- gforth/BUGS 1995/09/06 21:00:07 1.19 +++ gforth/BUGS 2003/02/03 08:59:28 1.52 @@ -1,26 +1,60 @@ -etags.fs crashes one of my applications (gs.fs). anton 12jan95 - -not all aliases are in the etags file. Bug in etags.fs? anton 24jan95 --> wrote special tag generation for cross compilation. bernd 6sep95 - -emacs often finds the wrong tag. anton 24jan95 --> emacs does not search for a complete word, but for parts. --> Solution: add blanks in front and end of tag name (etags.fs) --> and use own forth-find-tag. bernd 6sep95 - gforth.el: indentation does not work right on the first line of a buffer. anton 27jan95 --> Solved? Conditional compilation continues after the file ends. This is allowed by the standard (through an ambiguous condition), but the compiler should at least produce a warning. anton 27jan95 -.1 is interpreted as floating-point number, not as double number or -error. anton 4may95 --> All numbers ecvt converts are (by implementation) floating-point. --> Should we add a check againgst . at the start of a number? --> .1 isn't a double number; it's either an error or a FP number. --> bernd 5sep95 - -DOS and OS/2 don't like . at begin of a file (.gforth-history). bernd 6sep95py \ No newline at end of file +QUERY and TIB may behave differently than some may expect. TIB always +points to the current SOURCE, and QUERY puts its result there. anton +28nov96 + +open-path-file expands "./" into the sourcefilename. It should either +not expand "./" or provide a mechanism that allows the application to +determine what "./" should expand to. anton 16jun98 + +gforth.el: Typing does not work when tabs separate words in a +line, and there is a \-comment at the end of the line. anton 19feb00 + +SEE does not work when the control structure is too complex (e.g., +load http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/pentomino.fs and then do +SEE NEXT-PIECE). anton 5mar2000 + +Include cannot handle lines longer than 255 characters. anton 4sep00 + +Errors happening during a LOAD do not report the offending word and +its context (e.g., the 64-byte line). anton 8sep00 + +Our ecvt routine apparently does not work correctly for Infs and NaNs. +Try "ac_cv_func_ecvt=no ./configure; make" and then in Gforth: "1e 0e +f/ f. 0e 0e f/ f.". anton 25sep00 + +Our ecvt routine does not round correctly, e.g., 0.25->0.3. Marcel +Hendrix 3oct00 <8rdcmd$j96$1@news.IAEhv.nl> + +Newline has only LF (instead of CRLF) in DOS. Bruce Hoyt 25oct2000 +<39f7b14b$2@clear.net.nz> + +SIGPIPE can make Gforth hard to stop (e.g., +gforth -m 2M wordfreq.fs -e bye|head +anton 30may01 + +F. does not print trailing zeroes (e.g., "10 SET-PRECISION 125e f.") +anton 31may01 + +Block 0 does not work as it should: "0 block drop update save-buffers" +does not write to the blocks file. "0 block 1024 dump" seems to give +the previous contents of the buffer. Travis Bemann 10jul2001 +<3b4b4f57$0$42883$272ea4a1@news.execpc.com> + +When accessing a block beyond the end of the block file, the result is +filled with spaces (this is also documented). However, when accessing +a previously unwritten block before the end of the block file, we will +get a block full of zeroes on most (all?) OSs. This inconsistency +should be eliminated and the documentation fixed. anton 14jul2001 + +Path handling may have a bug: +strace $FORTH 'fpath= .|~+/gforth s" /home/anton/threading-variations/gforth/mach32b.fs" include gforth/kernel/main.fs bye' +tries to open gforth/kernel/gforth/kernel/aliases.fs, then +gforth/gforth/kernel/aliases.fs, but not gforth/kernel/aliases.fs. +anton 3 sep 2001