Re: [Win32forth-cvs] SEARCH does not conform to the ANS Forth standard?

[shtps <sh...@pr...>]

It looks like I had a really old version from somewhere and this was already fixed. I got Version: 6.15.05 Build: 2 and it works as expected, so the mail can be ignored.
------- Original Message -------
On Friday, October 7th, 2022 at 4:30 PM, shtps <sh...@pr...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> long story short, I wanted to verify if my ANS Forth compliant program works with other ANS Forth compliant Forths and found that Win32Forth implements SEARCH differently.
>
> I ran my test cases and they pass for both Gforth and SwiftForth, but they fail with Win32Forth.
>
> Upon closer investigation, the address that Win32Forth returns for the match with SEARCH is the address _after_ the delimiter, while the standard states that it should return the address where the match has been found including the search string.
>
> STC kernel
> version: 0.02.05 build: 957
> s" hello[DELIMITER]world" s" [DELIMITER]" search drop cr typeworld ok
>
> Gforth 0.7.3, Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> Gforth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `license'
> Type `bye' to exit
> s" hello[DELIMITER]world" s" [DELIMITER]" search drop cr type [DELIMITER]world ok
>
> SwiftForth i386-Linux 3.11.9 03-Sep-2022
> s" hello[DELIMITER]world" s" [DELIMITER]" search drop cr type [DELIMITER]world ok
>
> See: https://forth-standard.org/standard/string/SEARCH
>
> To me this seems like a bug.
>
> Best Regards,
> shtps