--- gforth/BUGS 1994/05/07 14:55:44 1.2 +++ gforth/BUGS 2001/10/26 11:53:21 1.51 @@ -1,23 +1,67 @@ -The system quits on exceptions like segmentation faults. anton 5oct93 +gforth.el: indentation does not work right on the first line of a +buffer. anton 27jan95 -compile does not have its traditional meaning. anton 5oct93 +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 -include does not read the last line if it does not end with \n. anton 6oct93 +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 -in decimal mode aaa is accepted as 1110 anton 4feb94 +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 -abort" does something to the control flow stack anton 2mar94 +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 -the compiler does not complain about undefined words; instead, it -complains about unstructured anton 2mar94 +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 -the compiler tries to reveal anonymous words ( -> redefined complaints ) anton 2mar94 +Include cannot handle lines longer than 255 characters. anton 4sep00 -'ansforth "include xxx"' gives a segmentation fault after processing -the file; No segmentation fault when including from the Forth prompt -anton 2apr94 +Errors happening during a LOAD do not report the offending word and +its context (e.g., the 64-byte line). anton 8sep00 -name> does not take the same argument as e.g. .name. Remedy: add cell+ -before name>, but adapt all uses. anton 23apr94 +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 + +It may be useful for printing tables of FP numbers to have ways to +control the number of digits before and after the decimal point. +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 + +F. does not print a leading digit for numbers <1, although it should. +anton 19aug2001 + +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