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- From: mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mike Coughlin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: ANS TC Magnet for ROMability
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.130915.8348@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 13:09:15 GMT
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- The discussion of cross compiliers, meta compiliers and related
- things like ROMable code as part of the ANSI Forth standard shows
- how we are doing things in the wrong order. Deciding on a standard
- for a process that is done in radically different ways will lead
- nowhere. The first step in standardising cross compiliers should
- be to write a clear explantion of how a cross compilier works
- and publish code that does it in an efficient manner. We will
- know the code is good when it gets copied into various new Forth
- systems.
- I don't think the groundwork for a cross compilier has been
- done yet. I also think documentation for a cross or meta compilier
- would be an important part of a standard document for Forth.
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