Re: [Amforth-devel] Image Debug

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

Am 25.05.2010 16:43, schrieb an...@ki...:
> Erich, Matthias, Guys
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I had a quick play with the installed amforth last night and it works fine.
> 
> The usual "Hello World" compiled and ran fine as well as a couple of 
> other simple words.

Great!

> Could be a useful platform for developing Amforth for larger memory devices.
> 
> I am surprised no one is selling these commercially yet.

Well, amforth works on all the controller types you mention ;=)
Maybe it's worth to deal with the un-destroyable amforth than.
I'm looking forward to get my board at hand..

> A quick question, forget does not seem to be implemented,

It was present in early versions but a few people with much
more forth experience pursuaded me that it's a bad idea. And
in fact, whith word lists it would be very hard to implement
it properly. The already mentioned marker is much better in
any respect. It's defined in one of the frt files, and it
has postpone as a pre-requisite (in another frt file).


Michael Kalus wrote (writes?) an forth_to_assembly converter
named G4 (> http://www.forth-ev.de/repos/g4/ ), that may
be useful as well, I'm sure you want to include some words
into the initial flash files that are available as forth
source only ;=)

Another way to get an re-usable flash image is create a generic
initial hex file, send a few forth source files afterwards to
the controller and read back the flash and EEPROM from the
controller, that way I prefer btw...

Matthias