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Annotation of gforth/kernel/quotes.fs, revision 1.4

1.1       jwilke      1: \ quote: S" and ." words
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1.2       anton       3: \ Copyright (C) 1996,1998,1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
1.1       jwilke      4: 
                      5: \ This file is part of Gforth.
                      6: 
                      7: \ Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
                      8: \ modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
                      9: \ as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
                     10: \ of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
                     11: 
                     12: \ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
                     13: \ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
                     14: \ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
                     15: \ GNU General Public License for more details.
                     16: 
                     17: \ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
                     18: \ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
1.3       anton      19: \ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
1.1       jwilke     20: 
                     21: \ this file comes last, because these words override cross' words.
                     22: 
                     23: require ./vars.fs
                     24: 
1.4     ! anton      25: \ create s"-buffer /line chars allot
1.1       jwilke     26: has? compiler 0= 
                     27: [IF] : s" [ELSE] :noname [THEN]
1.4     ! anton      28:        [char] " parse save-mem ;
        !            29: \      /line min >r s"-buffer r@ cmove
        !            30: \      s"-buffer r> ;
1.1       jwilke     31: has? compiler [IF]
                     32: :noname [char] " parse postpone SLiteral ;
                     33: interpret/compile: S" ( compilation 'ccc"' -- ; run-time -- c-addr u ) \ core,file     s-quote
                     34:   \G Compilation: Parse a string @i{ccc} delimited by a @code{"}
                     35:   \G (double quote). At run-time, return the length, @i{u}, and the
                     36:   \G start address, @i{c-addr} of the string. Interpretation: parse
1.4     ! anton      37:   \G the string as before, and return @i{c-addr}, @i{u}. Gforth
        !            38:   \G @code{allocate}s the string. The resulting memory leak is usually
        !            39:   \G not a problem; the exception is if you create strings containing
        !            40:   \G @code{S"} and @code{evaluate} them; then the leak is not bounded
        !            41:   \G by the size of the interpreted files and you may want to
        !            42:   \G @code{free} the strings.  ANS Forth only guarantees one buffer of
        !            43:   \G 80 characters, so in standard programs you should assume that the
        !            44:   \G string lives only until the next @code{s"}.
1.1       jwilke     45: [THEN]
                     46: 
                     47: :noname    [char] " parse type ;
                     48: :noname    postpone (.") ,"  align ;
                     49: interpret/compile: ." ( compilation 'ccc"' -- ; run-time -- )  \ core  dot-quote
                     50:   \G Compilation: Parse a string @i{ccc} delimited by a " (double
                     51:   \G quote). At run-time, display the string. Interpretation semantics
                     52:   \G for this word are undefined in ANS Forth. Gforth's interpretation
                     53:   \G semantics are to display the string. This is the simplest way to
                     54:   \G display a string from within a definition; see examples below.
                     55: