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User-visible changes between 0.5.0 and 0.6.0: |
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added words: EDIT-LINE ID. .ID CONST-DOES> K-PRIOR K-NEXT K-DELETE |
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SLURP-FILE SLURP-FID WORDLIST-WORDS SIMPLE-SEE [DEFINED] [UNDEFINED] |
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PARSE-WORD S\" .\" \"-PARSE STR= STR< STRING-PREFIX? EXECUTE-PARSING |
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EXECUTE-PARSING-FILE F.RDP F>STR-RDP F>BUF-RDP |
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Large file support on OSs that support them (i.e., files with more |
User-visible changes between 0.6.2 and 0.6.9 (up to 2006-05-07): |
than 2GB on 32-bit machines). |
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Default dictionary size is now 4MB. |
Installation: |
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support for DESTDIR, POST_INSTALL, INSTALL_SCRIPT |
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report performance and functionality problems at end of "make" |
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Bug fixes |
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Among others: now works with address-space randomization. |
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The single-step debugger works again in some engines. |
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Ports: |
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AMD64, ARM, IA-64 (Itanium): better performance |
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Gforth EC: R8C port |
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Forth 200x: |
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extension queries (produce true for all implemented extensions) |
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REQUIRED etc. (not new) |
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[DEFINED] and [UNDEFINED] |
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PARSE-NAME (new name) |
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deferred words (new: DEFER@ DEFER! ACTION-OF) |
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Unicode support (incomplete): |
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added xchars words for dealing with variable-width multi-byte characters |
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provide 8bit (ISO Latin 1) and UTF-8 support for xchars |
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Number prefixes: |
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0x is a hex prefix: 0xff and 0XfF now produces (decimal) 255 |
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# is a decimal prefix: #10 now produces (decimal) 10 |
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' now only handles a single (x)char: 'ab is no longer accepted, |
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'a' now produces (decimal) 97 |
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The disassembler (DISCODE, SEE <primitive>) can now use gdb to disassemble code |
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Uninitialized defered words now give a warning when executed |
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New words: |
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16-bit and 32-bit memory acces: UW@ UL@ SW@ SK@ W! L! W@ L@ /W /L |
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FTRUNC FMOD (undocumented) |
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NEXT-ARG SHIFT-ARGS (OS command-line argument processing) |
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Newly documented words: |
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S>NUMBER? S>UNUMBER? |
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EKEY keypress names: K-LEFT K-RIGHT K-UP K-DOWN K-HOME K-END K-PRIOR |
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K-NEXT K-INSERT K-DELETE K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9 K10 K11 K12 |
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S-K1 S-K2 S-K3 S-K4 S-K5 S-K6 S-K7 S-K8 S-K9 S-K10 S-K11 S-K12 |
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CLEARSTACKS |
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Environment variable GFORTHSYSTEMPREFIX (used by word SYSTEM and friends) |
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C interface: |
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exported symbols now start with "gforth_" (for referencing them from C code) |
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support for use of libffi (supplied with gcc) and |
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a C-compiler-based approach (requires C compiler at run-time) (incomplete). |
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Libraries: |
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depth-changes.fs: report stack depth changes during interpretation |
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fsl-util.4th: FSL support files (undocumented) |
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regexp.fs for regular expressions (undocumented) |
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complex.fs for complex numbers (undocumented) |
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fft.fs for Fast Fourier Transform (undocumented) |
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wf.fs, a Wiki implementation (undocumented) |
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httpd.fs, a web server (undocumented) |
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status.fs, show interpreter status in separate xterm (undocumented) |
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profile.fs for profiling (undocumented, incomplete) |
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compat library: |
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compat/execute-parsing.fs |
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Speed improvements: |
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static stack caching (good speedup on PPC) |
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fast mixed-precision division words on i386 and AMD64 |
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support for int128 types on AMD64 |
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workarounds for gcc performance bugs (in particular, PR 15242) |
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User-visible changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2: |
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Bug fixes (in particular, gforth-0.6.2 compiles with gcc-3.3) |
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New words: LATEST, LATESTXT (LASTXT deprecated) |
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Operating environment: Added optional support for a C interface built |
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on the ffcall libraries (more portable and powerful than the old |
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one, but still not documented). To use it, the ffcall libraries |
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have to be installed before building Gforth (see INSTALL). |
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Miscellaneous: Gforth-fast now uses static superinstructions (some |
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speedup on some platforms); generally this is transparent (apart |
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from the speedup), but there are lots of command-line options for |
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controlling the static superinstruction generation. |
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vi tags files can be built with tags.fs (usage like etags.fs). |
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gforth.el mostly rewritten. |
User-visible changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: |
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S": interpreted use now ALLOCATEs the string (they live until BYE). |
Bug fixes (installation on big-endian machines sometimes did not work) |
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Long word names (512MB on 32-bit systems) are now supported (change to |
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the header format). |
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Generalized prims2x.fs into Vmgen (see README.vmgen etc.); used the |
User-visible changes between 0.5.0 and 0.6.0: |
new capabilities in prims (e.g., automatic handling of the return |
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stack and instruction stream). |
Changes in behaviour: |
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S": interpreted use now ALLOCATEs the string (they live until BYE). |
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Long word names (512MB on 32-bit systems) are now supported (change to |
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the header format). |
New threaded code execution method: primitive-centric (allows the |
New threaded code execution method: primitive-centric (allows the |
following), hybrid direct/indirect threaded (easier portability), |
following), hybrid direct/indirect threaded (easier portability), |
with dynamic superinstructions (typical speedup on Athlon: factor |
with dynamic superinstructions (typical speedup on Athlon: factor |
2). New engine gforth-itc for dealing with some potential |
2). New engine gforth-itc for dealing with some potential |
backwards-compatibility problems (see "Invoking Gforth" in the |
backwards-compatibility problems (see "Direct or Indirect Threaded?" |
manual). |
in the manual). |
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Operating environment: |
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Default dictionary size is now 4MB. |
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Large file support on OSs that support them (i.e., files with more |
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than 2GB on 32-bit machines). |
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Gforth can now deal well with broken pipes in most situations. |
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vi tags files can be built with tags.fs (usage like etags.fs). |
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gforth.el mostly rewritten. |
New image file format. |
New image file format. |
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New words: |
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Keyboard input: EDIT-LINE K-PRIOR K-NEXT K-DELETE |
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File input: SLURP-FILE SLURP-FID |
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Programming tools: ID. .ID WORDLIST-WORDS SIMPLE-SEE |
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Conditional execution: [DEFINED] [UNDEFINED] |
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Defining Words: CONST-DOES> ]] |
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Input stream: PARSE-WORD EXECUTE-PARSING EXECUTE-PARSING-FILE |
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String comparison: STR= STR< STRING-PREFIX? |
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String literals: S\" .\" \"-PARSE |
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Floating point output: F.RDP F>STR-RDP F>BUF-RDP |
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Miscellaneous: |
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Generalized prims2x.fs into Vmgen (see README.vmgen etc.); used the |
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new capabilities in prims (e.g., automatic handling of the return |
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stack and instruction stream). |
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User-visible changes between 0.4.0 and 0.5.0: |
User-visible changes between 0.4.0 and 0.5.0: |
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$?) added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ). |
$?) added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ). |
' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words. |
' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words. |
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----- |
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Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003 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 2 |
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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, write to the Free Software |
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. |
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