Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type

2001-05-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 05:20:46PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: John Sadler is not a Unix user, and has no experience with Unix, and ... If you know exactly how to produce a .tar.gz under Windows that is suitable for our use, I'm sure he would appreciate the help. Ask him to use

Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type

2001-05-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:21:09AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: John Sadler is not a Unix user, and has no experience with Unix, and ... If you know exactly how to produce a .tar.gz under Windows that is suitable for our use, I'm sure he would appreciate the help. Ask him to use

Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type

2001-05-10 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:21 -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: John Sadler is not a Unix user [ ... ] If you know exactly how to produce a .tar.gz under Windows that is suitable for our use, I'm sure he would appreciate the help. Most of the distros I've seen (Linux as well as *BSD) have the

Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type

2001-05-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
David O'Brien wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:21:09AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: John Sadler is not a Unix user, and has no experience with Unix, and ... If you know exactly how to produce a .tar.gz under Windows that is suitable for our use, I'm sure he would appreciate the help.

**HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type

2001-05-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
For anyone who writes their own FORTH in the loader scripts: ficl 2.05 (imported on 28th April by dcs) changes `base' from an lvalue to an rvalue. This will break any code that currently uses base. In particular, code to temporarily change the base will corrupt low memory. For example:

Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type

2001-05-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Peter Jeremy wrote: For anyone who writes their own FORTH in the loader scripts: ficl 2.05 (imported on 28th April by dcs) changes `base' from an lvalue to an rvalue. This will break any code that currently uses base. In particular, code to temporarily change the base will corrupt low

Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type

2001-05-09 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: I have no idea why this change was made - it breaks FORTH compatibility. I can't find anything in ficl.sourceforge.net (except that someone has helpfully stripped all the CR's off ficl205.tar before it was gzip'd - which upsets tar quite a bit). John Sadler is