Re: [Amforth] Quite trivial

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

Matthias Trute <mt...@we...> writes:
>> Maybe it is a trivial observation, but I see that 2/ is a bad idea for
>> addresses > 32KWhatever (bytes or words) since sign propagation will
>> produce an incorrect address. I defined u2/ myself for that purpose.
>
> Its not the address but the size information. The chances are too little to
> hit this bug (you need plenty of external RAM for this).

Hello Matthias,

What I expressed support for was adding u2/ to the standard, as
recommended by Rafael. People with strictly typed language experience
may easily forget about this subtle point.

Regards, Enoch.