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Guide for building on an embedded platform

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I'm interested in building pForth for an ARM Cortex-M micro-controller. I've looked at the existing Makefiles in `platforms` but I can't figure out from that how to create one for,...

znmeb

implement several standard words

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words added: * SYNONYM * [DEFINED] * [UNDEFINED] * BEGIN-STRUCTURE * END-STRUCTURE * +FIELD * FIELD: * CFIELD: * FFIELD: (will only be defined if float support is enabled)

lolbinarycat

Inconsistent handling of stack-underflow

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Different words handle stack-underflows differently. There is inconsistency between words, and also inconsistency within certain words, in that some words throw on some but not all underflow conditions. A few...

MaxBarraclough

MSEC waits tenths of milliseconds

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this can be verified by running `echo "1000 msec bye" | time pforth` pforth version: PForth V28-LE/64, built May 26 2022 12:08:16 (static) commit: fa8de1fa6ddd9d3c394b851ba87db15a22505bea also, why is `MSEC` not...

lolbinarycat

this would make it much easier to make software that is portable across multiple forth implementations.

lolbinarycat

dictionary not easy to build during cross-compilation

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Hello! I have made an (unofficial) [package of PForth](https://gitlab.com/jpellegrini/openwrt-packages/) for [OpenWRT](http://openwrt.org/), and while cross-compiling, I noticed that the dictionary buillt on the compiling machine (amd64) had a cell size not...

jpellegrini

Suggest readme.txt be more explicit about running 'pforth -i system.fth'

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I suggest the readme.txt file be more explicit about how to build the dictionary file (`pforth -i system.fth`), as it's currently not very 'discoverable' for newcomers. Personally I googled it...

MaxBarraclough

Wordlists

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Preliminary word list support. should work, but there must be some issues.

vuokko

unit test fails for S", need dual storage

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I think that S" should use two storage areas to avoid collisions. INCORRECT RESULT: T{ S" abcd" S" 1234" SSQ13 S= ROT ROT SSQ12 S= -> TRUE TRUE }T

philburk

Initial port to powerpc bare metal

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pForth supports powerpc running unix, but this adds support for running pForth on bare metal. The impetus for this is the Microwatt project which is an Open POWER ISA softcore...

iamjpn