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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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User-visible changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: |
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Bug fixes (installation on big-endian machines sometimes did not work) |
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User-visible changes between 0.5.0 and 0.6.0: |
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 SLURP-FILE SLURP-FID WORDLIST-WORDS |
Changes in behaviour: |
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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). |
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New threaded code execution method: primitive-centric (allows the |
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following), hybrid direct/indirect threaded (easier portability), |
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with dynamic superinstructions (typical speedup on Athlon: factor |
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2). New engine gforth-itc for dealing with some potential |
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backwards-compatibility problems (see "Direct or Indirect Threaded?" |
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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. |
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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 |
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). |
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New threaded code execution method: primitive-centric (allows the |
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following), hybrid direct/indirect threaded (easier portability), |
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with dynamic superinstructions (typical speedup on Athlon: factor |
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2). New engine gforth-itc for dealing with some |
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backwards-compatibility problems (see "Invoking Gforth" in the |
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manual). |
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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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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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