From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 10 23:01:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17241 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:01:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles351.castles.com [208.214.167.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17232 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:01:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA87130; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:57:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901110657.WAA87130@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Duncan Barclay , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FICL and setting BTX variables In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1999 07:29:04 +0900." <369929B0.7ACC2DED@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:57:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > * Right now, all builtins return 1 if no error happened, 0 > > > otherwise (btw, Jordan, ANS specifies all bits 1 as the "true" value > > > :). It is my intention to change this behavior. In fact, I have > > > already submitted the patches. If I have it my way, errors will use > > > THROW instead. > > > > I can live with all that - we're not tied to the builtin return values > > being anything specific, they were chosen arbitrarily. > > Well, kern/9412, if you want. :-) This is something I think that you Forthies need to sort out; I'm happy with however you chose to bind Forth and C together, just as long as you pick a method and get to it. > Yup. So he did. (Do I need to mention I do have other PRs open > concerning the loader? kern/9371, misc/9373 (these two go together), > kern/9398 (this one requires making a choice, I realize), and > kern/9406 (well, this one can easily go ages ignored :), just in > case you were waiting for the numbers :). I'm not sure about the whole softwords/help text munging thing. Using Perl scripts is bad for various reasons, but I'm not sure that I want to go to having committed generated files (like the kernel uses) or the other way to compiled special-purpose tools. Anyone handy with awk want to try fixing these - both would probably succumb to the awesome power of awk. The other three are down, thanks. > > > * Right now (yeah, I'm emphasizing it :), EVALUATE doesn't work > > > according to specs. It will silently ignore the count passed, and > > > say, I hope :-), I intend to fix this too. Alas, I haven't submitted > > > this patch yet. Anyway, if you want to create strings to be > > > > Aye! :) > > Yeah, this one won't live another night. At least in *my* tree. :-) Remember to mail me the PR number. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message