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- Subject: ANS TC Magnet for ROMability
- Message-ID: <4000.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 13:27:02 GMT
- Organization: EIEI-U
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- Category 10, Topic 22
- Message 76 Fri Aug 21, 1992
- B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad] at 22:45 EDT
-
- (split for Forthnet, part 2 of 2)
-
- QUESTIONS: Please answer the following:
-
- 1. Is Section 1, "Scope, Purpose, and Content," a normative
- section or an informative section?
-
- 2. Is the dpANS a specification of an abstract language Forth,
- or a specification of the behavior of Forth systems?
-
- 3. Are cross-compilers considered within the scope of the
- dpANS? If not, at what time does the Committee expect to
- consider the question of cross-compilers?
-
- 4. Can a cross-compiler be an ANS Forth Standard System?
- If so, what are the requirements for interpretive behavior?
-
- 5. Which Forth words defined in the dpANS must be executable
- interpretively in a Standard System?
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- 6. To what extent must newly-defined Forth words, comprising a
- Standard Program, be executable interpretively in a Standard
- System?
-
- 7. Which of the following are valid Standard Programs?
-
- a) 4 5 + .
-
- b) : TEST 4 5 + . ;
-
- c) : TEST 4 5 + . ; TEST
-
- d) 4 CONSTANT FOUR FOUR 5 + .
-
- e) : SQR DUP * ; 4 SQR CONSTANT FOO
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- f) : SQCON DUP * CONSTANT ; 4 SQCON FOO
-
- 8. Must a compiler be an ANS Forth Standard System to label
- itself "ANSI Standard"?
-
- 9. Is the phrase "ANS Forth Cross Compiler" excluded by the
- labeling requirements of section 4.1?
-
- 10. What penalties are imposed upon vendors who wrongfully label
- cross-compilers "ANSI Standard"?
-
- 11. Is the Committee aware of any existing Forth cross-compilers
- that -- apart from new word definitions -- can meet the
- requirements of an ANS Forth Standard System? If so, which?
-
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