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Re: [gforth] why compiler directives in brackets?
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Bernd Paysan |
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Re: [gforth] why compiler directives in brackets? |
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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:43:41 +0200 |
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Am Montag, 29. Juli 2013, 20:30:03 schrieb Marcos Cruz:
> Hello,
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> In the Gforth's sources sometimes compiler directives are surrounded by
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> brackets inside a definition, not only the condition:
> : name [ condition [if] ] code1 [ [else] ] code2 [ [then] ] ;
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> Why? Maybe to make sure the code would work in other Forth systems where
> those words are not immediate?
IIRC, the cross compiler had (or still has?) only non-immediate versions of
these words, and therefore needs this kind of code.
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Bernd Paysan
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