Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 21:27:57 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FICL Message-ID: <366BC9CD.304D2049@newsguy.com>
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I just learned about the addition of FICL to FreeBSD, I decided to resubscribe (for a while, at least) to -current just to discuss this. I should have expected: I had to distance myself from both FreeBSD and Forth for a while and look what happens! :-) Ok, my two cents, though I still haven't read all the archive: > On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > I stripped LOCALS, multithreading, stack checking, but added KEY... Well, > this is still around 20k. > > > whether there's much we can strip from the core wordset; I'll leave > > that for the FORTH guruen to argue over. At 22k (plus whatever it > > As I said above, we probably can strip CORE-EXT and SEARCH - I wouldn't > touch the CORE itself, however. I have yet to check out how the source is being handled, but I here is my possibly irrelevant comments. I'll strive to get up to date before adding any more cents to the vending machine, though... :-) CORE can be stripped. There is a lot of words in ANS' CORE that are reduntant. Here, CORE represents more legacy than anything else. But I'd like this system to remain ANS in it's FreeBSD distribution. What is necessary for that is that *the source code for the words remain available*. I don't recall the specifics, but I think this refers to source code for the running system, instead of C source before generating FICL. In other words, you can remove, for instance, OVER from the base system, as long as you provide ": OVER SWAP DUP ROT ;" somewhere as source code reference for it. I'd have to check out the source, but it might well be possible (and easy) to create a word which would print the minimum required vocabulary, if such a beast one would be wanted. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com You can't modify a constant, float upstream, win an argument with the IRS, or satisfy this compiler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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