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    1: Disabled vmgen installation for now
    2: 
    3: User-visible changes between 0.6.2 and 0.6.9 (up to 2006-05-07):
    4: 
    5: variable THREADED-CODE-POINTER-TYPE for parameterizing Inst ** (undocumented)
    6: Better support for explicit stack access (see documentation) (works with static superinsts?)
    7: support for static multi-state stack caching (undocumented)
    8: 
    9: 
   10: User-visible changes between 0.6.[01] and 0.6.2:
   11: 
   12: You now have to define a macro MAYBE_UNUSED (see manual); useful for
   13:   suppressing expected "unused variable" warnings.
   14: 
   15: User-visible changes between 0.5.9-20020901 and 0.6.0:
   16: 
   17: Support for upward-growing stacks (see "Stack growth direction" in the
   18:   manual)
   19: New macro in output: IMM_ARG.
   20: New input flag: include-skipped-insts (currently pointless).
   21: Lazy loading and eager storing of stack items in superinstructiuons;
   22:   this reduces register pressure (useful on 386), but causes compiler
   23:   warnings about unused variables.
   24: 
   25: 
   26: User-visible changes between 0.5.9-20020822 and 0.5.9-20020901:
   27: 
   28: The store optimization is now disabled by default, but can be enabled
   29: by the user.  Documentation for this optimization is also new.
   30: 
   31: 
   32: Use-visible changes between 0.5.9-20010501 and 0.5.9-20020822:
   33: 
   34: There is now a manual (in info, HTML, Postscript, or plain text format).
   35: 
   36: There is the vmgen-ex2 variant of the vmgen-ex example; the new
   37: variant uses a union type instead of lots of casting.
   38: 
   39: Both variants of the example can now be compiled with an ANSI C
   40: compiler (using switch dispatch and losing quite a bit of
   41: performance); tested with lcc.
   42: 
   43: There are several changes in the way you have to define macros (see
   44: node/section "Changes" in the manual).  I recommend keeping the
   45: gforth-0.5.9-20010501 version until you have completed the changes
   46: (note that you can have several versions of Gforth installed at the
   47: same time).
   48: 
   49: -----
   50: Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   51: 
   52: This file is part of Gforth.
   53: 
   54: Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   55: modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
   56: as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
   57: of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
   58: 
   59: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   60: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   61: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.#See the
   62: GNU General Public License for more details.
   63: 
   64: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   65: along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
   66: 
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