Re: [Amforth-devel] Question about bootstrapping

[Matthias T. <mt...@we...>]

Hi,

> ,----
> | Most of the words are written in forth itself, but are precompiled
> | into the assembler syntax. This solves the chicken-and-egg problem:
> | how to compile the compiler words.
> `----
>
> Where can I find the (forth) source code for the compiler,

There is none, I outlined the code with the stack effects on paper&pencil
basis and wrote the assembler sources directly without an immediate
tool. Did you look at the http://amforth.sourceforge.net/words/ pages?

> and the
> precompiler that generates the assembly? I did some searching in the
> source tree, to no avail.
>   
Michael writes a forth2assembler tool named g4 and publishes
it at http://www.forth-ev.de/repos/g4/ His tool is very well suited for
most use cases (and with known limitations).

Matthias