Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 01:44:15 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type Message-ID: <3AFA1C9F.2CB1630A@newsguy.com> References: <20010510140142.D26407@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy wrote: > > For anyone who writes their own FORTH in the loader scripts: > > ficl 2.05 (imported on 28th April by dcs) changes `base' from an > lvalue to an rvalue. This will break any code that currently > uses base. In particular, code to temporarily change the base > will corrupt low memory. For example: > base @ <<expression>> hex . base ! > will now access a word at address 10 and store it at address 16. > > I have no idea why this change was made - it breaks FORTH compatibility. > I can't find anything in ficl.sourceforge.net (except that someone has > helpfully stripped all the CR's off ficl205.tar before it was gzip'd - > which upsets tar quite a bit). Ugh! I wasn't aware of this, and I can guarantee this will be fixed. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net Caffeine is proof that God hates mornings too To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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