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version 1.9, 2003/02/23 21:16:59 version 1.19, 2003/08/25 14:57:22
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   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:  User-visible changes between 0.5.0 and 0.6.0:
   
 added words: EDIT-LINE ID. .ID CONST-DOES> K-PRIOR K-NEXT K-DELETE SLURP-FILE SLURP-FID WORDLIST-WORDS  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  Long word names (512MB on 32-bit systems) are now supported (change to
   the header format).    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  Generalized prims2x.fs into Vmgen (see README.vmgen etc.); used the
   new capabilities in prims (e.g., automatic handling of the return    new capabilities in prims (e.g., automatic handling of the return
   stack and instruction stream).    stack and instruction stream).
   
 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  
   backwards-compatibility problems (see "Invoking Gforth" in the  
   manual).  
   
 User-visible changes between 0.4.0 and 0.5.0:  User-visible changes between 0.4.0 and 0.5.0:
   
Line 192  changed behaviour of SYSTEM (no longer r Line 236  changed behaviour of SYSTEM (no longer r
 $?)  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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