--- gforth/NEWS	1996/09/30 18:01:00	1.1
+++ gforth/NEWS	2003/08/25 14:57:22	1.19
@@ -1,23 +1,260 @@
-User-visible changes between 0.1beta and 0.2.0
+User-visible changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
+
+Bug fixes (in particular, gforth-0.6.2 compiles with gcc-3.3)
+New words: LATEST, LATESTXT (LASTXT deprecated)
+Operating environment: Added optional support for a C interface built
+  on the ffcall libraries (more portable and powerful than the old
+  one, but still not documented).  To use it, the ffcall libraries
+  have to be installed before building Gforth (see INSTALL).
+Miscellaneous: Gforth-fast now uses static superinstructions (some
+  speedup on some platforms); generally this is transparent (apart
+  from the speedup), but there are lots of command-line options for
+  controlling the static superinstruction generation.
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
+
+Bug fixes (installation on big-endian machines sometimes did not work)
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.5.0 and 0.6.0:
+
+Changes in behaviour:
+
+S": interpreted use now ALLOCATEs the string (they live until BYE).
+Long word names (512MB on 32-bit systems) are now supported (change to
+  the header format).
+New threaded code execution method: primitive-centric (allows the
+  following), hybrid direct/indirect threaded (easier portability),
+  with dynamic superinstructions (typical speedup on Athlon: factor
+  2).  New engine gforth-itc for dealing with some potential
+  backwards-compatibility problems (see "Direct or Indirect Threaded?"
+  in the manual).
+
+Operating environment:
+
+Default dictionary size is now 4MB.
+Large file support on OSs that support them (i.e., files with more
+  than 2GB on 32-bit machines).
+Gforth can now deal well with broken pipes in most situations.
+vi tags files can be built with tags.fs (usage like etags.fs).
+gforth.el mostly rewritten.
+New image file format.
+
+New words:
+
+Keyboard input: EDIT-LINE K-PRIOR K-NEXT K-DELETE
+File input: SLURP-FILE SLURP-FID 
+Programming tools: ID. .ID WORDLIST-WORDS SIMPLE-SEE
+Conditional execution: [DEFINED] [UNDEFINED]
+Defining Words: CONST-DOES> ]]
+Input stream: PARSE-WORD EXECUTE-PARSING EXECUTE-PARSING-FILE
+String comparison: STR= STR< STRING-PREFIX?
+String literals: S\" .\" \"-PARSE
+Floating point output: F.RDP F>STR-RDP F>BUF-RDP
+
+Miscellaneous:
+
+Generalized prims2x.fs into Vmgen (see README.vmgen etc.); used the
+  new capabilities in prims (e.g., automatic handling of the return
+  stack and instruction stream).
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.4.0 and 0.5.0:
+
+Changes in behaviour:
+
+There are now two engines: the fast engine (gforth-fast) is at least
+  as fast as gforth in earlier releases; the debugging engine (gforth)
+  supports precise backtracing for signals (e.g., illegal memory
+  access), but is slower by a factor of 1-2.
+Block files now start at block 0 by default (instead of block 1).  If
+  you have block files around, prepend 1024 bytes to convert them, or
+  do a "1 OFFSET !" to establish the old behaviour.
+Gforth now does not translate newlines to LFs on reading.  Instead,
+  READ-LINE now interprets LF, CR, and CRLF as newlines.  Newlines on
+  output are in the OSs favourite format.
+SEE now disassembles primitives (or hex-DUMPs the code if no
+  disassembler is available).
+>HEAD (aka >NAME) now returns 0 (instead of the nt of ???) on failure.
+Syntax of prim changed: stack effects are now surrounded by
+  parentheses, tabs are insignificant.
+
+Operating environment:
+
+Gforth now produces a backtrace when catching an exception.
+On platforms supporting the Unix 98 SA_SIGINFO semantics, you get more
+  precise error reports for SIGSEGV and SIGFPE (e.g., "stack
+  underflow" instead of "Invalid memory address").
+Gforth now produces exit code 1 if there is an error (i.e., an
+  uncaught THROW) in batch processing.
+You can use "gforthmi --application ..." to build an image that
+  processes the whole command-line when invoked directly (instead of
+  through gforth -i).
+
+Ports:
+
+AIX.
+20% speedup on 604e under powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu,
+19%-29% speedup on Celeron with gcc-2.95.
+
+New words:
+
+Missing ANS Forth words: EKEY EKEY? EKEY>CHAR
+Timing words: CPUTIME UTIME
+Vector arithmetic: V* FAXPY
+FP comparison: F~ABS F~REL
+Deferred words: <IS> [IS]
+Nested number output: <<# #>>
+Exception handling: TRY RECOVER ENDTRY
+Directory handling: OPEN-DIR READ-DIR CLOSE-DIR FILENAME-MATCH
+Other: ]L PUSH-ORDER
+
+Miscellaneous:
+
+Significant extensions to the manual (added an introduction, among
+  other things), many of them due to a new team member: Neal Crook.
+Added assemblers and disassemblers for 386, Alpha, MIPS (thanks to
+  contributions by Andrew McKewan, Bernd Thallner, and Christian
+  Pirker).  Contributions of assemblers and disassemblers for other
+  architectures are welcome.
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.3.0 and 0.4.0:
+
+Operating environment:
+
+Path handling: "." at the start of the path represents the directory
+  the nearest enclosing file resides in (if there is none: the working
+  directory). "~+" indicates the working directory.  The default path
+  now has "." in front.
+gforth and gforthmi is now more GNU standards compliant (wrt
+  command-line options).
+New command-line-option: --die-on-signal
+Errors are now directed to stderr.
+Stdout is now unbuffered, if it is a tty.
+User input device redirection (for filters) is now possible.
+
+Ports:
+
+Now runs on IRIX (and other MIPS-based systems without linker-flag -d).
+Direct threading now works on PowerPC (20% speedup on 604e).
+Better support for m68k (thanks to Andreas Schwab and Jorge Acereda).
+It is possible to create executables that contain the image (for
+  non-OS systems).
+
+Added a lot of embedded control (EC) stuff. Supported controllers and
+small CPUs are Siemens C16x, 8086, 6502, Mixed-Mode's FPGA MISC, Bernd Paysan's
+4stack processor. Not finished: ShBoom alias PSC1000, H8, AVR.
+
+New, changed, and removed words:
+
+Renamed F0 to FP0 (avoids unexpected behaviour in hex), added aliases
+  SP0, RP0, LP0 (recommended for future use) for S0, R0, L0.
+Renamed PARSE-WORD into SWORD (PARSE-WORD is used with the meaning of
+  NAME in OpenBoot and dpans6 A.6.2.2008)
+Added FPICK (suggested by Julian Noble).
+Added EXCEPTION.
+S" gforth" ENVIRONMENT? now produces the version-string.
+Changed representation of types in struct package, and correspondingly
+  changed names.
+
+Miscellaneous:
+
+Plain text documentation is now available in doc/gforth.txt.
+Documentation improvements.
+Wordlist structure changed.
+Added mini-oof.
+Reorganized files: added directories and reorganized many files into
+  them; renamed files into 8.3 format to work with completely broken
+  systems (but there are again some files that won't work there).
+Bug fixes.
+Various changes without log information only known as mega-patches.
+Cross compiler now also supports compilation only for undefined or forward
+referenced words. Plugins to support some native code generation
+(for PSC1000).
+More files in the compat library.
+
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.2.1 and 0.3.0:
+
+Stack overflow detection by memory protection on most systems
+	(allocation with mmap).
+gforth.fi is now fully relocatable.
+fully relocatable images are now easier to create.
+added primitives K and UNDER+.
+Win32 support.
+Improved support for embedded controllers and other deprived environments.
+some bug fixes.
+added concept index; other documentation improvements.
+
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.2.0 and 0.2.1:
+
+Bug fixes
+
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.1beta and 0.2.0:
+
+Portability and Installation:
 
-Improved etags support.
-more.fs allows output paging.
-Changed popen and pclose to open-pipe and close-pipe.
-Added form, rows, and cols.
-Added compat/ directory containing ANS implementations of Gforth features.
-added primitives EMIT-FILE, STDOUT, STDERR; EMIT and TYPE now work
-through file words (and are redirectable).
 Support architectures with buggy long longs (alpha-dec-osf).
-Added tiny multitasker.
+Better support for DOS and other non-Unix systems.
 Size changes through the command line are passed to the image (and
 saved with savesystem); the preamble specifies an interpreter and is
 propagated by save-system.
-Added tables (case-sensitive wordlists)
+
+Tools:
+
+Improved etags support.
+more.fs allows output paging.
+Added compat/ directory containing ANS implementations of Gforth features.
+Added tiny multitasker (tasker.fs).
+Added two alternatives for object-oriented programming: oof.fs, objects.fs.
+Added ans-report.fs (reports which words are used from which wordset).
+
+New words:
+
+Changed POPEN and PCLOSE to OPEN-PIPE and CLOSE-PIPE.
+Added FORM, ROWS, and COLS.
+added primitives EMIT-FILE, STDOUT, STDERR.
+Added TABLEs (case-sensitive wordlists).
+added POSTPONE,.
+Added the ability to combine arbitrary interpretation and compilation
+semantics (INTERPRET/COMPILE:); state-smart words were generally
+rewritten to use that mechanism.
+
+Changes to existing words:
+
+EMIT and TYPE now work through file words (and are redirectable).
 HEADER now stores the compilation wordlist in the header and REVEAL
 reveals into that wordlist.
-changed bahviour of system (no longer returns wretval, but puts it in
-$?)  added (system) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ).
-Added the ability to combine arbitrary interpretation and compilation
-semantics; state-smart words were generally rewritten to use that
-mechanism.
+changed behaviour of SYSTEM (no longer returns wretval, but puts it in
+$?)  added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ).
 ' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words.
+
+-----
+Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003 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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
+
+
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