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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: ANS TC Magnet for ROMability
- Message-ID: <4018.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 11:51:45 GMT
- Organization: EIEI-U
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- Category 10, Topic 22
- Message 82 Tue Aug 25, 1992
- B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad] at 21:21 EDT
-
- Chris: thanks for your answers to my cross-compiler questions. Your answers
- agree with my understanding of the dpANS; but I have received divergent
- opinions in the past from members of the TC, so I think I can safely say the
- dpANS is not clear on this issue. Hence the formal request for clarification.
- At Len Zettel's suggestion, I made it as detailed and specific as I could.
-
- I should add that I have written significant applications under the
- restrictions that I proposed. With pain, I admit...it's rather like
- programming in C. :-) I deliberately chose a restricted set of words to
- accomodate the largest variety of existing cross-compilers.
-
- > Writing cross-compilable code almost always entails using various
- > extensions to specify whether words exist in the host or target
- > system.
-
- Actually, you should see the cross-compiler I'm currently using (from MPE in
- the U.K.). My application code looks exactly like "ordinary" Forth. I've
- converted huge files from "resident" to "cross" compilation, with no edits at
- all! Admittedly, I do have to provide directives such as ORG, but if
- commercial assemblers are any indication, we don't need to standardize these.
-
- Brad Rodriguez
- B.RODRIGUEZ2 on GEnie | bradford@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
- So many projects....so little time.
-
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