Re: [Amforth] From frt to asm

[Enoch <ix...@ho...>]

Hello Matthias,

I believe that downloading code from the application should be
a discouraged practice, reasons below.

Matthias Trute <mt...@we...> writes:

>> *Downloading* hex code from the application is what I do now. Quite ugly
>> IMO.
>
> Whats wrong with it? It keeps the state of the controller just the
> same way MARKER does and you can transfer that state to (possibly)
> a lot of other controllers (of the same type).

1. Downloading application compiled code may inadvertently introduce
source code bugs. For example, a programmer needs to hand type some
device-init to get his source to work in the application and forgets to
add the same to the source file itself. This can go unnoticed for a long
while since the downloaded code does include this device-init.

2. Host compiled Forth code can easily be enhanced with hand written
asm.

Thanks, Enoch.