--- gforth/BUGS 2000/05/14 20:23:04 1.35 +++ gforth/BUGS 2007/12/31 18:40:23 1.59 @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -etags.fs crashes one of my applications (gs.fs). anton 12jan95 +You can find more recent bug reports at +http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gforth gforth.el: indentation does not work right on the first line of a buffer. anton 27jan95 @@ -15,30 +16,83 @@ open-path-file expands "./" into the sou not expand "./" or provide a mechanism that allows the application to determine what "./" should expand to. anton 16jun98 -TAGS contains references to development (not install, not build) -directories (for prim). Probably a Makefile bug. anton 20oct99 - -All I/O in DOS is unbuffered since 0.4.0. Bruce Hoyt, early 1999. - -FILE-SIZE, FILE-POSITION, and REPOSITION-FILE don't work correctly on -text files under DOS and Windows. anton 31oct99 - -On Irix 6.2 the second signal kills gforth. anton 31oct99 - 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 -If I start Gforth and type first -: 123456789012345678901234567890 ; -' 123456789012345678901234567890 >name name>string type gives ??? ok -Robert Epprecht 18mar00 - -EKEY no longer works (does not recognize function keys etc.). anton 23feb2000 - 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 -RESTORE-INPUT does not work for files with CRLF newlines, and if -SAVE-INPUT was called on a line without newline (i.e., on the last -line) anton 27apr2000 +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> + +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 + +gforth-native does not deal correctly with inline arguments in static +superinstructions: when using lit_lit, the wrong literals are put into +the native code (probably due to wrong assumptions about argument +offsets). 6 nov 2003 + +finish-code changes the stack for gforth-fast with --enable-force-reg +(probably for gforth-native too). Apparently ecx (spTOS) is neither +saved by engine, nor by finish_code(). + +Wrong decompilation: +create foo +5 constant bar +: xxx foo bar ; +simple-see xxx +16 nov 2005 + +Debian's gforth's etags.fs crashes (probably due to path problems) +on b3: +gforth etags.fs +16 nov 2005 + +----- +Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2005 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 3 +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, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.