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1.2       anton       1: -*- outline -*-
1.1       anton       2: 
1.2       anton       3: This file describes all the things left to do on GNU Forth. The list
                      4: is not complete, so you should add topics you miss or refine existing
                      5: topics. If you are working on a topic, add your name to the right of
                      6: the topic. If you have completed the work, remove the topic.
                      7: 
1.1       anton       8: This an emacs outline. Use '*' to create topics.
                      9: 
                     10: *The Engine
                     11: **measure the effect of some variations on different machines:
                     12: direct/indirect, NEXT splitting, keeping the TOSses in variables
                     13: **make it easy to put the right variation for each processor into the
1.2       anton      14: configuration. I.e., on installation all combinations of options
                     15: should be measured and the fastest chosen. Knowing OS and architecture
                     16: is not enough, the best otions depend more on the processor and the
                     17: compiler version.
1.1       anton      18: 
                     19: * ANSI Forth
1.2       anton      20: Add the remaining words
                     21: 
1.1       anton      22: *Run-time System
                     23: **Gender-independent image file format and loader
1.2       anton      24: **Stack Checking using the MMU where the OS makes it possible.
1.1       anton      25: 
                     26: *Porting/Portability
                     27: ** Machines/OSs
1.2       anton      28: VMS (VAX,AXP)
                     29: DOS 8088 (16-bit or 32-bit? Note: there are no far pointers in gforth,
                     30: so 16-bit means 64k max.)
1.1       anton      31: Windows
                     32: OS/2
                     33: Mac
                     34: Atari
                     35: Amiga
1.2       anton      36: Use gcc-generated assembly on machines without gcc, but with
                     37: processors supported by gcc
1.1       anton      38: 
                     39: *Foreign Language Interface
1.2       anton      40: If anybody wants to do this, mail me
                     41: (anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at). I have given some thought to this
                     42: and will type in my notes if you are interested.
1.1       anton      43: **C
                     44: **FORTRAN
                     45: **C++
                     46: 
                     47: *Windows and Graphics
1.2       anton      48: **Ask Brian Dunn and Mike Hore for their OS-independent interface
                     49: **use the Foreign Language Interface to make X-Windows support
1.1       anton      50: 
                     51: *Program Development Environment
                     52: Issues: Convenience, portability across plattforms, compatibility with
                     53: existing tools (Emacs, F-PC)
1.2       anton      54: ** Decompiler and Debugger
                     55: need debugging
                     56: ** emacs support
                     57: can be improved
1.1       anton      58: **prefix file generator
                     59: A tool for generating a prefix file for a program that explains in
1.2       anton      60: what way the program conforms to ANSI (i.e., which wordsets are used)
                     61: and contains Forth definitions for the simple non-ANSI words.
                     62: ** rightcase
                     63: A tool that converts all uses of words in a source text to the exact
                     64: case of the definition. There's something like this out there on the
                     65: net (Joerg Plewe has posted a reference), but I think a program that
                     66: wires itself into the compiler (like etags.fs) is harder to fool by
                     67: search order tricks etc.
1.1       anton      68: 
                     69: *Object-Oriented Extensions
1.2       anton      70: John Hayes has a portable package
1.1       anton      71: 
                     72: *Documentation
                     73: A texinfo file
1.2       anton      74: 
1.1       anton      75: **glossaries of all wordsets.
1.2       anton      76: *** Inclusion of stack comments, glossary comments, and wordset comments
                     77: in all source files.
1.1       anton      78: 
1.2       anton      79: * Distribution and Announcements
                     80: ** add copyright notices to all the source files
1.1       anton      81: ** Write articles for (general-purpose) magazines