Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:50:10 +0000 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Forth include ? Message-ID: <200512251450.14281.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <200512240716.29744.zettel@acm.org> References: <200512240716.29744.zettel@acm.org>
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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.
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