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gforthmi instructions confused regarding relocatability


From: Ethan Gardener
Subject: gforthmi instructions confused regarding relocatability
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:22:16 +0100
User-agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.3.0-382-ge235179-fm-20200928.002-ge2351794

In the gforth documentation, at the bottom of section 13.5.1, are some confused 
statements. To quote:

> A special doubly indirect threaded version of the gforth executable is used 
> for creating the non-relocatable images; you can pass the exact filename of 
> this executable through the environment variable GFORTHD (default: 
> gforth-ditc); if you pass a version that is not doubly indirect threaded, you 
> will not get a fully relocatable image, but a data-relocatable image (because 
> there is no code address offset). The normal gforth executable is used for 
> creating the relocatable image; you can pass the exact filename of this 
> executable through the environment variable GFORTH. 

I think "not get a fully relocatable image," should be "not get a 
non-relocatable image,".



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