Don Hopkins wrote:
Hey Mitch, is there a version of your Forth that runs under Linux, or
do I have to type L1-A (or whatever it is on the OLPC) and halt the
operating system to get at the Forth interpreter? I miss the old
Forthmacs that I used to run under SunOS on the SPARC.
Yeah, get the OFW source tree from svn://openbios.org/openfirmware .
The Forth core is in cpu/x86/build/tools.dic (dictionary file) and
cpu/x86/Linux/forth (OS glue).
It is basically the "old Forthmacs" of which you speak. The one
deficiency is that it doesn't handle error signals nearly as slickly as
it used to. Signals basically kill the process. All the high-level
infrastructure for good trap handling is still there, but the low-level
handler for finding the saved registers isn't present for Linux. I
expect it would be possible to do that, but I haven't bothered.
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