Re: Forth include ?
On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:16, Leonard Zettel wrote: This undoubtedly is of no importance whatsoever, natheless this inquiring mind would like to know. The FreeBSD boot loader is written in Forth, which I happen to be able to read (sort of, anyway). EXCEPT the word include occurs in a number of places. I grant it is fair to middling obvious what it does. At the same time, I have not been able to find a definition for include in any of the reference materials I have on Forth. It is defninetly NOT ANS (or ISO) Forth (which specifies the words INCLUDE-FILE and INCLUDED). So 1) Can anybody give a stack picture for include ? 2) What version/dialect of Forth does FreeBSD use and is there any place I can get documentation on it? Looking through the source it appears it's not stricly speaking Forth, but rather FICL. http://ficl.sourceforge.net/ FWIW I have seen include in older, pre-ansi, versions of forth. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Forth include ?
In the last episode (Dec 25), RW said: On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:16, Leonard Zettel wrote: This undoubtedly is of no importance whatsoever, natheless this inquiring mind would like to know. The FreeBSD boot loader is written in Forth, which I happen to be able to read (sort of, anyway). EXCEPT the word include occurs in a number of places. I grant it is fair to middling obvious what it does. At the same time, I have not been able to find a definition for include in any of the reference materials I have on Forth. It is defninetly NOT ANS (or ISO) Forth (which specifies the words INCLUDE-FILE and INCLUDED). So 1) Can anybody give a stack picture for include ? 2) What version/dialect of Forth does FreeBSD use and is there any place I can get documentation on it? Looking through the source it appears it's not stricly speaking Forth, but rather FICL. http://ficl.sourceforge.net/ FWIW I have seen include in older, pre-ansi, versions of forth. It looks like include is defined in /sys/boot/ficl/softwords/fileaccess.fr -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Forth include ?
On Monday 26 December 2005 02:33 am, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 25), RW said: On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:16, Leonard Zettel wrote: This undoubtedly is of no importance whatsoever, natheless this inquiring mind would like to know. The FreeBSD boot loader is written in Forth, which I happen to be able to read (sort of, anyway). EXCEPT the word include occurs in a number of places. I grant it is fair to middling obvious what it does. At the same time, I have not been able to find a definition for include in any of the reference materials I have on Forth. It is defninetly NOT ANS (or ISO) Forth (which specifies the words INCLUDE-FILE and INCLUDED). So 1) Can anybody give a stack picture for include ? 2) What version/dialect of Forth does FreeBSD use and is there any place I can get documentation on it? Looking through the source it appears it's not stricly speaking Forth, but rather FICL. http://ficl.sourceforge.net/ FWIW I have seen include in older, pre-ansi, versions of forth. It looks like include is defined in /sys/boot/ficl/softwords/fileaccess.fr So it is! Thanks. Now all we need is a mention in the handbook about where all this can be found. -LenZ- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forth include ?
This undoubtedly is of no importance whatsoever, natheless this inquiring mind would like to know. The FreeBSD boot loader is written in Forth, which I happen to be able to read (sort of, anyway). EXCEPT the word include occurs in a number of places. I grant it is fair to middling obvious what it does. At the same time, I have not been able to find a definition for include in any of the reference materials I have on Forth. It is defninetly NOT ANS (or ISO) Forth (which specifies the words INCLUDE-FILE and INCLUDED). So 1) Can anybody give a stack picture for include ? 2) What version/dialect of Forth does FreeBSD use and is there any place I can get documentation on it? thanks in advance, -LenZ- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
